ASP Scripting Tutorial

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Using VBScript
VBScript in Web Pages
Procedures and Functions
The Basics - Datatypes
The Basics - Variables
The Basics - Constants
The Basics - Operators
The Basics - Other Stuff
Programming Control Structures
Objects/Properties and Methods
A Quick Look at JScript

The Basics of ASP Scripting
From ASP to HTML
HTML Tags in ASP
Referring to Existing HTML Elements
Header Stuff
The GLOBAL.ASA File
Application and Session Objects
A Hit Counter Page
The Default Start Page
Text Files and Concurrency
Client Persistence and Cookies
Send and Retrieve
Including Objects in ASP
Exclude Business Logic from ASP
Including Scripts for Reuse - Lesson 1
Including Scripts for Reuse - Lesson 2
What’s New in ASP3?

Introducing Built In ASP Objects
What are the Built In ASP Objects?
The Response Object
The Request Object
The Application Object
The Session Object
The Server Object
The Error Object
The File System
The Dictionary Object

Simple Built In ASP Objects
The Application Object - Lesson 1
The Application Object - Lesson 2
The Application Object - Lesson 3
The Application Object - Lesson 4
The Error Object
The Dictionary Object
The Server Object - Lesson 1
The Server Object - Lesson 2
The Server Object - Lesson 3

The Response Object
The Response Object
Writing Text to the Client
Redirecting to a New URL
Controlling Response with the Buffer
Ending and Expiring Pages
Client and Page Status
Content Type and Character Set
Obscure Properties and Methods

The Request Object
The Request Object
Server Variables
QueryString URL Parameters
QueryString Multiple URL Parameters
QueryString FORM METHOD=GET
Request.Form
Obscure Properties and Methods

The Session Object
What is a Session?
The Session Object
Session Start and End Events
The Contents Collection - Lesson 1
The Contents Collection - Lesson 2
Connecting and Disconnecting
Obscure Session Properties

Data Persistence on the Client
What is Persistence?
What is a Cookie?
Cookies in ASP
Multiple Valued Cookies - Lesson 1
Multiple Valued Cookies - Lesson 2
Session Cookies
Are Cookies Enabled on the Client?

Persistence and the File System
ASP Objects and the File System
The FileSystem Object
Using the FileSystem Object - Lesson 1
Using the FileSystem Object - Lesson 2
The TextStream Object
Using the TextStream Object
The Drive Object
The File Object
The Folder Object

Database Persistence and ADO
Database Drivers
Configuring ODBC and OLEDB
Reading an Oracle Database
Reading an Access Database
What is ADO?
ADO Object Hierarchy
ADO Objects Function and Purpose
ADO Object Attributes - Lesson 1
ADO Object Attributes - Lesson 2

ADO/ASP/ SQL
The Most Significant ADO Objects
Recordset Transparent SQL
What is SQL? The SELECT Statement
INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
SELECT Statement Syntax
SELECT Statement Syntax WHERE Clause
SELECT Statement Syntax: GROUP BY
SELECT Statement Syntax: ORDER BY
INSERT Statement Syntax
UPDATE Statement Syntax
DELETE Statement Syntax
What is a Transaction?

Retrieving Data From a Database
What is a Recordset?
Recordset Fields and Values
Opening a Recordset
Closing and Emptying Objects
Advanced Recordset Options - Lesson 1
Advanced Recordset Options - Lesson 2
Paging Partial Recordsets
Disconnected Recordsets - Lesson 1
Disconnected Recordsets - Lesson 2

Changing Data in a Database
Adding Rows
The SQL INSERT Statement - Lesson 1
The SQL INSERT Statement - Lesson 2
Recordset.Addnew - Lesson 1
Recordset.Addnew - Lesson 2
Changing Rows
The SQL UPDATE Statement - Lesson 1
The SQL UPDATE Statement - Lesson 2
Recordset.Update
Batch Updates - Lesson 1
Batch Updates - Lesson 2
Batch Updates - Lesson 3
Deleting Rows
The SQL DELETE Statement
Recordset.Delete

Using Stored Procedures
Stored Procedures and Functions
Executing a Stored Procedure
Using Input Parameters
Input and Output Parameters
Input / Output Parameters
Using Functions

Components
Instantiating Components
IIS Resource Kit Components
E-Mail
Windows Scripting Components
Charting
Where Can Components be Found?

XML in ASP
What is XML?
What is XSL?
The XML Dynamic Object Model in ASP
Rendering XML Using XSL in ASP
Generating XML Manually from a Database

Wrapping it Up
Debugging ASP
Tuning ASP - Lesson 1
Tuning ASP - Lesson 2
Security ASP and IIS
The Future: ASP.NET
What You Have Learned

Credits
About the Author