What is Active Server Pages?
Microsoft® Active Server Pages (ASP) is the server-side execution environment in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 3.0 that enables you to run ActiveX™ scripts and ActiveX server components on the server. By combining scripts and components, developers can create dynamic content and powerful Web-based applications easily.
A. Active Server Pages (ASP) is the latest server-based technology from Microsoft used to create interactive HTML pages for a World Wide Web site or corporate intranet. It is just part of an all-encompassing concept called the Active Platform which has been developed along with Microsoft Windows NT Server, and Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). ASP serves as a middle layer between relational databases (back end) and graphic user interfaces (front end Web pages among them).