Classic ASP/SQL Programming

For decades, we’ve built, managed, and customized websites using Classic ASP (VBScript) with SQL Server (MSSQL) databases and hosted on IIS (Windows Server). For those unfamiliar with the power of that combination, Classic ASP was the cornerstone of Microsoft’s foundation of creating dynamic and interactive websites, and it revolutionized the process for developing countless complex solutions online. A top-down language, it was written to integrate beautifully with HTML using HTTP/HTTPS and support its Microsoft SQL databases. This eliminated the necessity of manually creating (and painstakingly revising) hundreds or thousands of static pages of often redundant content. Classic is easily written (and edited) within standard HTML structures, it is often paired with JavaScript, and later advancements of CSS and jQuery – all of which allowed it to support modern industry advancements in site design and visitor (UX) experience over the decades. Its simplicity allowed it to outperform heavier languages that required more server resources (memory, processing, and bandwidth) with complex (object oriented) development of compiled code.

Classic ASP (Active Server Pages) remains a powerful language used to support websites which display hundreds, even thousands and millions of ‘pages’ of dynamic content from as little as a few lines of code on a single page. This allows libraries of database content to be displayed online and combined with Classic ASP’s session variables and cookies. This establishes and maintains visitor security, is encrypted with SSL/TLS, and passed from page to page – remembering the website visitor’s identity and authenticating with its underlying SQL database, IIS host, email server, etc. By combining connectivity with a database and maintaining visitor sessions, websites could now be created with access to content restricted to authorized users whose identity, and the content they needed, was confirmed when HTML forms captured credentials which could be compared to content previously stored in a secured backend database. 

Not surprisingly, Classic ASP was quickly accepted and recognized as one of the two leading languages chosen for developing shopping carts, event registration, online payments, access to restricted content, and even content management systems – allowing authenticated users to even manage their own website.
 
Hospitals, libraries, law enforcement agencies, retailers, manufacturers, government agencies, and millions of organizations around the globe developed online portals written in Classic ASP, and over 100,000 of these remain in use today, with more developed every day.
 
At ISADEX, we are experienced in many languages, including Classic ASP/SQL/IIS. We have tremendous respect for its contribution to our industry, and are proudly available to support, maintain, and host websites security written and performing well using Classic ASP.
 

For decades, we’ve built, managed, and customized websites using Classic ASP (VBScript) with SQL Server (MSSQL) databases and hosted on IIS (Windows Server). For those unfamiliar with the power of that combination, Classic ASP was the cornerstone of Microsoft’s foundation of creating dynamic and interactive websites, and it revolutionized the process for developing countless complex solutions online. A top-down language, it was written to integrate beautifully with HTML using HTTP/HTTPS and support its Microsoft SQL databases. This eliminated the necessity of manually creating (and painstakingly revising) hundreds or thousands of static pages of often redundant content. Classic is easily written (and edited) within standard HTML structures, it is often paired with JavaScript, and later advancements of CSS and jQuery – all of which allowed it to support modern industry advancements in site design and visitor (UX) experience over the decades. Its simplicity allowed it to outperform heavier languages that required more server resources (memory, processing, and bandwidth) with complex (object oriented) development of compiled code.  
 
Classic ASP (Active Server Pages) remains a powerful language used to support websites which display hundreds, even thousands and millions of ‘pages’ of dynamic content from as little as a few lines of code on a single page. This allows libraries of database content to be displayed online and combined with Classic ASP’s session variables and cookies. This establishes and maintains visitor security, is encrypted with SSL/TLS, and passed from page to page – remembering the website visitor’s identity and authenticating with its underlying SQL database, IIS host, email server, etc. By combining connectivity with a database and maintaining visitor sessions, websites could now be created with access to content restricted to authorized users whose identity, and the content they needed, was confirmed when HTML forms captured credentials which could be compared to content previously stored in a secured backend database.
 

Not surprisingly, Classic ASP was quickly accepted and recognized as one of the two leading languages chosen for developing shopping carts, event registration, online payments, access to restricted content, and even content management systems – allowing authenticated users to even manage their own website.
 
Hospitals, libraries, law enforcement agencies, retailers, manufacturers, government agencies, and millions of organizations around the globe developed online portals written in Classic ASP, and over 100,000 of these remain in use today, with more developed every day.
 
At ISADEX, we are experienced in many languages, including Classic ASP/SQL/IIS. We have tremendous respect for its contribution to our industry, and are proudly available to support, maintain, and host websites security written and performing well using Classic ASP.