Active Server Pages

Microsoft's programming system for dynamically-generated web pages. Pages can be generated by mixing server-side scripting code (including database access) with html and client-side code. For example:

<%if x=1 then%>

     X equals one

<%else%>

     X is not one

<%end if%>

This code results in the html "X equals one" when the server-side variable X=1.

Programming ASP websites is made easier by various built-in objects, such as a cookie-based session object that maintains variables from page to page.

In early 2002, standard ASP is being replaced by ASP.NET, which among other things replaces scripting languages with full-fledged Visual Basic, C#, or any other .NET-supported language.