Capabilities of ASP

[inf33323]

Hi,

my question refers to the capabilities of ASP:

I have a database application created with MS Access 97 and would like to offer access to it through a Web-browser. If I use ASP, can I maintain all the implemented capabilities (like linked forms) without considerable programming effort or do I have to program every detail again?

Thanks a lot,

inf33323

 

[IonelBurtan]

ASP is a Server-side script language - it only returns HTML pages to the client which is the browser.

However on the server side are usually done all the preparation for the HTML pages that are using databases (Access, SQL Server, whatever else).

This means that the ASP is reading from the databases and puts the results in html pages(with .asp extension, but with mime type of text/html). ASP usually write in server's databases on client's submit forms.

So, there is no linked-form, you have to make this ASP capability by hand. But I think if you make good ASP plans you can make somethink like a template and use it on all your forms subsequently.

Hope this helps,
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