ASP 3.0 is the most recent version of ASP, and is released with version 5.0 of Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS 5.0) web server, with Windows 2000. It is also ported for use on UNIX.

ASP is an easy way to control content - giving us the flexibility to handle complex professional commercial sites. If you want to program a web page, pure HTML is fine, however this book shows how to add dynamism to web site generation and will utilize components, objects and Databases to achieve that.