ASP object model

Lesson 10

Objective

The ASP object model
Use ASP's objects to simplify writing ASP operations.

The interaction between Web clients and servers is complex, with many messages passed between the two.
However, most of the time we only need to work with one part of this complex interaction, for example a cookie sent by a user's browser to our Web server.
One of the goals of ASP, and object-oriented programming in general, is to hide unneeded complexity from the developer.

The designers of ASP have built a model of this complex interaction in the ASP object model. As we work with ASP, we'll do so through the five "built-in" objects of ASP:

Application,
Request,
Response,
Server, and
Session.

This SlideShow will describe the five objects of the ASP object model that represent the categories of operations during a browser-server dialog:

Five ASP Objects

Each of the five objects is an object in the object-oriented programming sense and can have its own properties and methods.
In later modules, we'll cover each of the objects in detail.
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