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# Active Server Pages Guide

Welcome to the Active Server Pages Guide. This section provides detailed information about creating ASP pages and developing Web applications. It also describes the special event methods and interfaces available for creating components for access by ASP or ISAPI extensions. In this section you will find information on how to store your custom IIS configuration data and how you can use built-in objects to manipulate that data. Finally, the guide provides a library of script and program samples demonstrating a variety of ways to interact with IIS.

This section contains:

- Getting Started with ASP: Provides an introduction to creating Active Server Pages and demonstrates most of the key concepts for understanding the IIS programming platform.
- Building ASP Pages: Provides the basic information you need to write a script, and introduces topics ranging from basic syntax to creating transactional scripts.
- Developing Web Applications: Outlines concepts of how IIS fits into the Microsoft architecture for distributed applications, as well as providing specific details for designing and implementing applications for deployment through HTTP.
- Accessing ASP Built-in Objects from ASP Pages: Describes the properties and methods of the ASP Built-in Objects to help you access information about the Web server, the user, the Web application, and the fields in the HTTP request and response stream.
- ASP Installable Components Reference ASP Installable Components Reference: Outlines a variety of components you can install to work with ASP.
- ASP Script Reference ASP Script Reference: Contains miscellaneous reference material, including the @ directives and Global.asa references.

This section does not include information on:

- More advanced topics, such as designing and building Web applications; see Web Applications: An Overview.
- Reference pages for the components that come with ASP; see ASP Installable Components Reference.

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