Summary

In this chapter, we built a working application using Active Server Pages. The application used features such as:

• Client-side scripting, using JavaScript to validate passwords and proper bid amounts.
• Server-side scripting, using VBScript to present custom presentations to different users.
• ASP's Request and Response objects, to communicate with the web client and pass information back and forth.
• ASP's Session object, to manage a user session which tracks a user through the application and holds all of their pertinent information as they move from page to page.
• The ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), to manipulate the information in our database.

The intention of this example application was to demonstrate many of the techniques that we've seen so far in the book. In the remaining chapters, we'll take a look at a couple of technologies that are very relevant to ASP – namely, components and XML.