Simply put Active Server Pages are just normal HTML code that has script (VBScript or JavaScript) that is executed on the server instead of on the client....
Sample Chapter 10 from "Developing ASP Components, 2nd Edition". This chapter provides an overview of XML, as well as XML formatting techniques, because it's necessary to have an understanding of XML before working on the examples in the second part of the chapter. These examples and their related discussions cover working with XML in ASP components written in Visual Basic. Some of the examples we'll look at include accessing and creating XML through the Microsoft XML parser (MSXML), working wit...
Sample Chapter 6 from "ASP in a Nutshell". The Request object gives you access to the user's HTTP request header and body. It is arguably the most important built-in ASP object to understand, since it is through this object that you will be able to react to the decisions made by the user. Using the Request object, you can dynamically create web pages and perform more meaningful server-side actions (such as updating a database) based on input from the user....
