VBScript

Also known as ASP (Active Server Pages) programming, it's really the web development environment native to Microsoft's IIS web server that combines the VBScript programming language with the ASP extensions.

Tips

I just whipped up a general tool for helping me with ASP programming. The page, which I call ASP Pal, simply lists all the ASP collections and for each collection lists the properties and their values, lists the methods for quick reference and iterates through the collections. It's a great tool to just copy to a development site to help you peek at Session variables or to check out the Server HTTP values.

Here is a code snippet I wrote to be able to test a simple ADO connection to a database. I now have this as part of a test page template. For every site that uses database connections, a page exists for monitoring software to use for detecting connection problems on that site. The function will try to connect to a database and outputs any errors it finds. If all the connections work then the phrase "Status is OK" will appear.

Links

15 Seconds.com -- A good resource for ASP programming. Covers many areas including web server setup/maintenance, databases and other web technologies.

Microsoft Script Technologies: VBScript Features -- A valuable index for the VBScript language.