Objectives
This ASP training course provides an intensive hands-on introduction to developing
intelligent commercial web applications using the Visual InterDev environment which
promotes the use of Active Server Pages (ASP). VBScript is the choice language and will be
used extensively, together with MS SQL Server.
What You Will Learn
1. How to create dynamic, database-driven web applications with Active Server Pages.
2. Familiarity with the Visual Interdev development environment.
2. Understanding ASP server-side capabilities.
3. How to rapidly develop ASP pages using Design Time Controls.
5. How to hand-code ASP pages using VB script.
6. How to optimise performance of ASP pages.
7. How to apply SQL queries in ASP pages and with SQL Server stored queries.Exercises
1. Gather and process data from browsers eg forms.
2. Search and display information from a database on a web page.
3. Update a database via a web page
4. Maintain application state with queries, cookies and session objects.
5. Use custom and 3rd party COM objects.
6. Create your own COM object.Course Content
Course content has been developed for real-world, commercial scenarios by our expert instructors. See below for detailed syllabus, or if you have a technical query email .Duration
5 DaysWho should attend
Developers who are looking to gain the skills to develop commercial ASP systems.Prerequisites
Delegates should be experienced in programming in VB or VBScript and have a good understanding of HTML. It is also recommended that delegates have experience in writing SQL queries.Associated courses
ASP Programming
ASP.NET
What are Active Server Pages?
Windows DNA and Tiered Architecture Development
Understanding State Management
The VI6 Development Environment
VBScript recap
The 6 ASP Objects
Processing HTML Forms with ASP
Understanding the Request Object
Using Querystrings
Understanding the Response Object
Using Cookies
Understanding and Using Session and Application Variables
Understanding the Issues with Session objects
Securing pages with the session object
Using the Server Object
Determining the browser capabilities
Using the File System Object
Using the Banner Ad component
Exploring other ASP/COM components (inc. uploading binary files)
About ADO and OLEDB
The Visual Interdev Design Time Controls and Scripting Object Model pros and cons
Elements needed
Creating the SQL Query or Stored Procedure
Creating the search using the Visual InterDev 6 DTC's
Hand coding the search using ADO/ASP
Using SQL Server or Access as the data store
Creating a Data Input Page with VI6
Using the Data Bound DTC's
Browsing Data
Updating, Inserting and Deleting Data
Creating a Data Form with ADO and ASP
Updating, Inserting and Deleting data with ADO and SQL
Handling errors in VBScript
Handling errors in ADO
Handling errors in IIS 4/5
Enabling Transactions on an ASP Page
The Object Context Object
The Transaction Events
Creating Objects in VB Script
Creating COM components with VB
The Object context interface
Integrating the COM components into your web development
Key points in configuring Internet Information Server 4/5
Setting up secure web sites
Configuration Issues
Overview of XML
Overview of ASP.NET
Overview of VisualStudio.NET
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