Active Server Pages Study Guide

0-619-06808-6 © 2001 Publish date: February 8, 2001 268 pages

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Course ID: active-server-pages-sg

CBT Planet offers many computer training books designed to teach you at your own pace. The Active Server Pages study guide is an excellent choice that uses a self-directed format. In fact, you can use this manual on your own or as a supplement to your existing ASP courses.

The Active Server Pages courseware provides you with a comprehensive overview of ASP, the Internet, and various scripting languages. You will learn how to work with data, variables, constants, modules, classes, collections, and arrays. Other topics include control structures, the FileSystemObject, databases, and SQL, migrating from Access to SQL Server.

You will also learn about using ASP with e-commerce including components such as ad rotators, content linking, cookies, and the browser capabilities component. Finally, the Active Server Pages courseware shows you how to create user-defined components with Visual Basic 6.0.

This manual will take the average user about five days to work through. You can go faster or slower depending on your schedule and level of motivation. Not only does the course contain high-quality content and clear information about using ASP, it also provides you with hands-on activities so that you can further master the material. By choosing this study guide, you will get a firm foundation in the basics of Active Server Pages.

Course Contents

Unit 1 gives an ASP overview

• The Internet
• Scripting languages
• Using Web applications

Unit 2 discusses working with data

• Using variables and constants
• Using Modules
• Using classes
• ASP's object model

Unit 3 goes over arrays and collections

• Using arrays and collections

Unit 4 discusses control structures

• Selection control structures
• Repetition control structures

Unit 5 covers the FileSystemObject object

• Using the FileSystemObject object
• Using the TextStream object
• Uploading files to the server

Unit 6 discusses SQL and databases for data-driven applications

• Database overview
• How to design database structures
• How to query databases with SQL
• How to modify data

Unit 7 covers auto-generating SQL

• The different database programming interfaces
• ActiveX Data Objects
• ODBC and OLE DB

Unit 8 goes over moving databases from Access to SQL server

• Converting data from Access to SQL
• Stored procedures

Unit 9 covers ASP and E-Commerce

• The Browser Capabilities Component
• Cookies

Unit 10 goes over the management of ads and tables of contents of a Web site

• The Ad Rotator
• The content linking
• Counters

Unit 11 covers creating user-defined components in Visual Basic 6.0

• The components you will find in Web applications