Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Preparing to Work with ASP -- Understanding ASP and the Web Server -- The Advantages of Server-Side Processing -- VBScript, the Heart of ASP -- Configuring Your Web Server for ASP -- Configuring Internet Information Server with Windows 2000 -- Installing Internet Information Server -- Confirming Your IIS Installation -- Configuring Personal Web Server with Windows 98 -- Installing Personal Web Server -- Confirming Your PWS Installation -- Confirming Your Web Server's ASP Functionality -- Displaying Your Web Server's Default Home Page -- Choosing an ASP Application Development Tool -- Summary -- CHAPTER 2 Programming ASP Web Pages with VBScript -- Integrating VBScript with ASP -- Client-Side versus Server-Side Processing -- Understanding VBScript Variables -- Declaring Constants in VBScript -- Learning to Program with VBScript -- The IF...THEN Statement -- The FOR...NEXT Statement -- Commenting Your VBScript Code -- The Hello, World! Game -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3 Working with ASP Objects -- Introducing the Request and Response Objects -- The Request Object -- Understanding Object Collections -- Introducing the File Object -- The File Object Properties -- The File Object Methods -- A File Object Example -- Introducing the TextStream Object -- Writing to a Text File -- Reading from a Text File -- ASP MadLibs-Working with ASP Objects -- The Game Data Input Form -- The MadLib Processing Page -- The Save Feature: Storing Your ASP MadLibs to a Text File -- Summary -- CHAPTER 4 Working with ASP Components -- What Are ASP Components? -- Working with the Content Linking Component -- The Content Linking Component-An Example -- Working with the Ad Rotator Component -- The Ad Rotator Component-An Example -- Working with the Content Rotator Component -- The Content Rotator Component-An Example.

Working with the Page Counter Component -- The Page Counter Component-An Example -- Summary -- CHAPTER 5 Database Access with ADO -- Understanding ADO -- The ADO Object Collection -- Creating a Data Source Name (DSN) -- Introducing SQL -- The SELECT Statement -- The INSERT Statement -- The UPDATE Statement -- The DELETE Statement -- The Counting Magician: Working with Recordsets -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6 Using Forms -- The Memory Game -- Form Essentials: The Response and Request Objects -- Reading and Manipulating Form Data -- The Memory Game: A Design Overview -- The Memory Database -- Establishing Database Permissions with Windows 2000 -- Programming the Memory Game -- Random Number Generation, Part I -- Random Number Generation, Part II -- Understanding the Entire Memory Game Code -- The Memory_Home.asp Page -- The Memory_Process.asp Page -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7 Essential Programming Logic, Part I -- The Fortune Teller Game -- Fortune Teller Basics -- Creating an ODBC Connection for the Fortune.mdb Database -- Creating the Fortune_Info.asp Data Input Page -- Working with the If...Then Statement -- Using the If...Then...Else Statement -- More Examples of If...Then...Else -- Working with Loops -- Building the Fortune Teller Wizard -- Creating the Fortune_Process.asp Page -- Fortune_Process.asp-Defining the Page Header Information -- Fortune_Process.asp-Reading Previous Fortune Entries -- Fortune_Process.asp-Generating the Magic Number for the New Fortune -- Fortune_Process.asp-Displaying a New Fortune -- Summary -- CHAPTER 8 Essential Programming Logic, Part II -- Introducing Arrays: Why Do You Need Them? -- Zero-Based Arrays -- Useful Array Functions -- Useful VBScript Functions -- Programming the ASP War! Game -- Analyzing the Code -- Summary -- CHAPTER 9 Formatting Processed Output -- HTML Formatting-Beyond the Basics.

Creating Dynamic Form Elements -- Creating Dynamic Hyperlinks and QueryStrings -- Another Look-ASP MadLibs -- Improving ASP MadLibs!: Integrating with a Database -- Improving ASP MadLibs!: Dynamic Page Formatting -- Summary -- CHAPTER 10 ASP and HTML Scripting with FrontPage 2000 -- Building a FrontPage Web -- Naming a FrontPage Web -- Adding New Pages to Your Web -- FrontPage 2000 Basics -- Creating Your First Web Page -- Placing and Formatting Text -- Inserting Graphics -- Adding Tables to Organize Your Information -- Formatting Tables -- Adding Text and Graphics to Your Tables -- Working with FrontPage Components -- Saving Your Web Pages -- Validating Forms -- Determining Required Form Fields -- Validating Other Form Elements -- Utilizing the FrontPage 2000 Database Results Wizard -- Viewing the Automatically Generated ASP Code -- Integrating Forms with the Database Results Wizard -- Creating a Database Results Wizard Form Processing Page -- Working with Frames in FrontPage -- Saving Frame Pages -- Understanding Frame Page Mechanics -- Integrating E-mail with FrontPage Webs -- Working with DHTML Effects -- Summary -- CHAPTER 11 Looking Back and Looking Forward -- Configuring Your System for ASP -- Working with ASP on the Personal Web Server -- Working with ASP on the Internet Information Server -- Working with Other ASP-Related Tools -- Programming ASP Pages with VBScript -- Integrating Your ASP Web Pages with a Database -- Looking Ahead-ASP+ -- The Philosophy of Indispensability-Viewing the Web as an Automobile -- The Promise of ASP+ -- Internet Information on ASP+ -- Summary -- APPENDIX A: VBScript Variable Reference -- VBScript and ASP Essentials -- VBScript Variable Subtypes -- Working with String Functions -- Concatenating Strings -- Searching and Replacing Strings -- Comparing One String to Another -- Extracting Strings -- Replacing Strings.

Working with Date and Time Functions -- APPENDIX B: SQL Reference -- The SELECT Command -- The INSERT Command -- The UPDATE Command -- The DELETE Command -- Logical Operators -- The IS NULL Operator -- The BETWEEN Operator -- The IN Operator -- The LIKE Operator -- Useful Data-Sorting Functions -- The COUNT Function -- The SUM Function -- The AVG Function -- The MAX Function -- The MIN Function -- APPENDIX C: Access Essentials -- Creating an Access Database -- Creating Tables in Design View -- Entering Data into a Table via the Datasheet View -- Modifying a Table That Contains Data -- Inserting a New Field into an Existing Table -- Deleting a Field from an Existing Table -- Modifying a Field Data Type -- Using the Access 2000 Simple Query Wizard -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.