arly in 2001, before the company I worked for closed it's doors (ePod Inc.), I taught an introductory ASP/MTS course.

The course was an ASP/MTS introduction for our QA department. This course was part of their yearly training and was supposed to be outsourced to one of the professional training companies around town. Since the education budget was being cut for the whole company the Software Manager asked me to prepare an introductory course and present in to our QA team. I said I would gladly do it, and this is the result: ASP 101, by Jose Sandoval.

The course was written by me in its entirety and if you want to use it, go ahead. If you like to get a ZIP file of the whole tutorial, let me know and I can email it to you.

Things to note about this tutorial:

• This is not a tutorial about programming COM components, but it does mention them and goes through and example of how to install them.
  
• Writing the DLLs was out of the scope of this one tutorial.
  
• The tutorial will not make you an ASP programmer nor you get any sort of certification after reading it. Remember, it is just an introduction of the specific technology.
  
• ASP is sometimes used to to access databases directly. This should not be done under any circumstances, and that's why I don't mention it in the tutorial. But for the curious, the best way to make a database backed application is to abstract the DB interaction into a COM (MTS) component.
  
• There is a lot more that can be done with ASP and MTS, as the matter of fact, there is a whole industry out there.
  
• There are some parts that require a COM component to be installed into a server machine. Don't worry about this part, I think you can still get the flavour of what I'm trying to say just by going through the section. BTW, if you see any errors do let me know about them (Grammatical, spelling, etc).
  

If you find the tutorial in any way helpful let me know.