ASP file structure

To run ASP, you first will need IIS web server. We assume that the root of server is C:/mywebpage. Let’s “firstpage.asp” to be our first asp web page file, in order to run this file , set the URL of web browser to :

Note you have to set the ISS setting to point to C:/mywebpage as default root. Now, how our file first? We start the web page by telling the application server that we are using VB-script:

In this case we are using VBScript for asp server side programming. The next part is the declarations of variables to be used later in our application.

Following show declaration of a variable and assigning a string value to it, we define the variable using
“Dim” command.
Dim myMsg
myMsg =”My string”
You can print the content of this variable using “Response” object and “Write” function. Following is full and simple example, as you notice that the VB-script code is embedded with HTML code: