Programming with Classic ASP

Classic Active Server Pages (ASP) is a server-side scripting technology used to create dynamic web pages and applications. Microsoft’s first version of ASP was in the late 1990s as part of the Microsoft ActiveX technology.

Classic ASP uses VBScript as its default scripting language, but it can also be used with other scripting languages. Some examples of other languages include JScript and PerlScript. VBScript allows developers to program scripts that run on the server side into HTML pages. This scripting allows for the creation of dynamic content that changes based on environmental variables, works with data in databases, and performs other server-side tasks.

Classic ASP historically was used to develop web applications that ran on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) servers. Classic ASP has often been used with data stored in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, or Oracle databases.

Despite being replaced by ASP.NET, Classic ASP is still...