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Do I need any kind of compiler like Visual Basic 6.0 for developing ASP pages?

May 30th, 2000 06:04
unknown unknown, Nick Abbot, Gene Berger

ASP Pages ane not compiled using a compiler.  They are simply text files
that are interpreted by an Active Server Pages equiped server, such as 
IIS and Apache, at which time an HTML page of sorts is generated at the 
server before being presented to the client.  ASP Pages can be developed 
from anything as simple as Notepad to something more advanced/limiting 
such as FrontPage, Visual Interdev, 1stPage 2000, ASP Express, Homesite, 
etc... ASP works using a scripting language or a combination of 
different langauges. These include VB Script, Javascript, Perl (if 
configured to be interpreted sever side) and maybe some other less 
common scripting langauges.

If you want to run the pages on your own machine:

You will need to download Personal Web Server from Microsoft's website 
to run your asp pages.