Active Server Pages Application Development
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4/8/2010
The Active Server Pages (ASP) functionality in Windows Mobile provides a server-side scripting environment that can be used to create and run dynamic, interactive Web Server applications. ASP combines HTML pages, script commands, and Component Object Model (COM) components to create interactive Web pages, or powerful Web-based applications. ASP applications are easy to develop and modify.
OS designs that include ASP require the functionality provided by the Web Server (HTTPD) Catalog item. The reverse is not true: the Web Server item does not require ASP.
A server–side script begins to run when a browser requests an .asp file from the Web Server. The Web Server then calls ASP, which processes the requested file from top to bottom, executes any script commands, and sends a Web page to the browser. Because scripts run on the server instead of on the client browser, the Web Server does all of the work that is involved in generating the HTML pages that are sent to browsers.
Windows Mobile supports a subset of the ASP functionality that the Internet Information Service (IIS) supports. For more information, see ASP Functionality in Windows Mobile.