This book covers ASP and is focused on beginner to intermediate skilled programmers. It is especially designed for those who want to pick up the basics of ASP and build interactive web sites fairly quickly. It has a series of ASP projects at the end of the book, which will help consolidate the ASP concepts in the book and firm up your skills. If this book is coupled with the book entitled 'web enabled commercial application development using XHTML, HTML, JavaScript, Perl CGI, an excellent set of reference material on web based technology will be available to the reader. We hope that you have as much fun reading and understanding ASP as the author had when he wrote this book. Table of Contents: Introduction to ASP understanding objects understanding components working with users working with HTML forms cookies working with files and the file system working with connection and data sources about the connection object working with the command object active server pages registry settings project in ASP answer to self review questions appended a.