Posted by mashah@xxxxx.xxx.xx on 2000-03-29
: someone : told my partner in this that the application can be : made using ASP or IIS. is this possible? i think it can probably be : made with IIS but what about ASP? Hi, Can't help you in the VB stuff. I have not done much work in that. As far as ASP and IIS is concerned; yes, you can do that in ASP. IIS is Internet Information Server from Microsoft (for Windows NT and Windows 2000). This server is a web server like Apache and Omni HTTPd and NetFusion; i.e. it serves the web sites which someone requests. For example, suppose I have Windows NT as my OS and IIS as my web server and I have a free stuff site in my hard disk. Now, when I am connected to the Internet and my IIS is running, if someone types my ip address in his browser window, a connection between his and my computer will be made. His browser will ask for a web page from my IIS; which in turn will send the web page after reading it from my hard disk. Now, where does the ASP term comes in? IIS supports ASP, which stands for Active Server Pages. ASP is Microsoft's way of rivaling the CGI technology. You can also use the free "Personal Web Server" from Microsoft for Windows 95 / 98 OS. PWS also supports ASP. Moreover, ChilliSoft's ASP can be used to extend that capability of existing web servers, like Apache. ASP is similar to VBScript in syntax. It can be used to generate an html page at run time. By run time, I mean that the web page is not created before hand. It is created when requested. For example, when you search for a term like "assembly language programming" at a search engine, the resulting web page is created at run time. It is not stored anywhere before your query. ASP can be used to execute SQL statements. That means, that it can work with any database that supports SQL statements and has an ODBC driver for it. You can use ACCESS too. For example, you can store user ids, passwords and messages in an Access database table. Then when somebody logs in at your site, you can use ASP to query the database and find messages for that user. You can then generate an HTML page containing all the messages sent to the user by other users. I hope you will find this information useful. I would recommend a book "ASP Unleashed" for further reading and numerous excellent examples. Muhammad Ali Shah web: www.redrival.com/mufta email: mashah@xxxxx.xxx.xx [BCS V - FAST Institute of Computer Science, Karachi] To signoff send a mail to listserver@xxxx.xx.xx with "signoff tcg" in the body of your message.
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