ASP Tutorial - Table of contents

• Introduction
  A brief introduction to the tutorial and what you can expect to learn.
• Lesson 1: What is Active Server Pages (ASP)
  A little on how ASP works; what it means that ASP is a server-side technology and what you will learn in the next lessons.
• Lesson 2: Servers
  How to install a server on your computer with Windows 7 or Windows XP.
• Lesson 3: Your first ASP page
  In this lesson, you create your first very simple ASP file. Here, you can also test whether your server is set up properly to run ASP.
• Lesson 4: Working with time and dates
  Introduction to functions that can be used in work with time and dates.
• Lesson 5: Loops
  Loops can repeat parts of a script. In this lesson, we look at loops such as "For ... Next" and "Do ... While".
• Lesson 6: Conditions
  Conditions can be used to control the execution of an ASP script. We look at "If .. Then ...Else" and "Select Case."
• Lesson 7: Comment your scripts
  Comments make your ASP scripts more clear and easier to understand. Comments can be a great help if you or someone else needs to make changes in your codes at later stage.
• Lesson 8: Arrays
  In this lesson, you will learn what an array is, how it is used, and what it can do.
• Lesson 9: Functions
  In previous lessons, you have learned to use different, built-in functions. Now learn to create your own functions.
• Lesson 10: Passing variables in a URL
  Learn how to pass variables and values from one page to another using the HTTP query string.
• Lesson 11: Passing form variables
  Interactive websites require input from users. One of the most common ways to get input is using forms.
• Lesson 12: Sessions
  Sessions can be used to store and retrieve information during a user's visit on your site.
• Lesson 13: Cookies
  Cookies can be used to store and retrieve information about a user from visit to visit.
• Lesson 14: FileSystemObject
  With the FileSystemObject, you can access the server's filesystem. This allows you to manipulate files, folders and drives with ASP scripts.
• Lesson 15: Reading from a text file
  In this lesson, we will use the FileSystemObject to read from a text file. Text files can be very useful to store data of various kinds.
• Lesson 16: Writing to a text file
  This lesson is about how to write to a text file using the FileSystemObject. Text files can be very useful to store data of various kinds.
• Lesson 17: Databases
  In this tutorial, we use the Microsoft Access database. Access is the natural place to start when you want to use databases in ASP.
• Lesson 18: Database Connections
  In this lesson, we'll look at how you can create a database connection. There are several options but the simplest is the so-called DSN-less connection
• Lesson 19: Retrieve data from a database
  Learn how to use a SQL query to retrieve data from a database.
• Lesson 20: Insert data into a database
  Learn how to use SQL statements to insert data into a database. We also look at data types and the most common beginner mistakes.
• Lesson 21: Delete data from a database
  Learn how to delete records from a database using SQL.
• Lesson 22: Update data in a database
  In this last lesson, you will learn how to update data in an Access database using a SQL statement.

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