What is the ASP file?

If you have studied web production, you naturally heard of the famous ASP, as a Web page production of one of the great weapon, always can occupy a place in the production of Web pages. But for a lot of friends who do not touch the web production, for the ASP is what file and ASP file how to open the more unfamiliar, the following for you to introduce the details.

　　What is the ASP file?

ASP is a dynamic Server page (Active Server Page) foreign language abbreviation. is an application developed by Microsoft to replace CGI scripts, which can interact with databases and other programs, and is a simple and convenient programming tool. ASP's Web page file is in the format of. ASP. Now used in a variety of dynamic Web sites.

　　Development history

The first edition of ASP, 0.9 Beta, has brought the gospel to the Web development community since the birth of ASP1.0 in 1996. The ASP, however, allows you to write code embedded in an HTML Web page using a simple scripting language such as VBScript or JavaScript. You can use its internal components to implement some advanced functions (such as cookies) while you are programming. Its greatest contribution is its ADO (ActiveX Data Object), this component makes the operation of the database is very simple, so the dynamic web design has become a relaxed thing. So overnight, web programming is no longer a daunting task, as if a lot of people can show their skill.

By the year 1998, Microsoft had released ASP 2.0. It is part of the Windows NT4 Option Pack and is an external add-on to IIS (Internet Information Services, Internet Information Service) 4.0. Its main difference from ASP 1.0 is that its external components can be initialized so that all components within the ASP program have separate memory space and can be transacted.

By the year 2000, with the successful release of Windows 2000, ASP 3.0, which came with the operating system's IIS (Internet Information Services, Internet Information Service) 5.0, became popular. The advantage of ASP 3.0, compared to ASP 2.0, is that it uses COM +, and therefore its efficiency is better and more stable than the previous version.

2001, ASP NET has appeared. At the beginning of development, its name is asp+, but, in order to with Microsoft's · NET plan, and to show that this ASP version is not a supplement to ASP 3.0, Microsoft named it asp.net. Asp. NET is structurally different from the previous version, it is almost entirely component-based and modular, and Web application developers use this development environment to implement more modular, more powerful applications.

　　How do ASP files open?

Before, we have introduced, ASP file is a Dynamic Web page file, from a professional point of view, open the need to use professional Web page production tools, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver8, Web page Maker, such as web production or editing software. In addition, you can also open the ASP file with the Notepad tool with Windws, but the editor is not very professional.

Notepad Open ASP file

In addition, open ASP files can be opened using the tools shown in the following figure.

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