Active Server Pages (ASP)

Active Server Pages are an excellent way to write web site applications with great functionality.

Toolsack Baseline is a set of COM objects that greatly increase the boundaries of what you can do. Here are some of the objects included in the library and what they can do for you.

Email

Just about every ASP website can benefit from being able to send email. Toolsack Baseline includes an SMTPMail component that allows you to send mail from your Active Server Pages. The component is very powerful, it can send alternate bodies, HTML bodies with embedded pictures, different chararcter sets and more. See the documentation for the api.

TypedLists

VBScript and JScript are typeless, we include a number of typed lists - StringList, NumberList, DoubleList and ObjectList, to make your applications clearer to understand and less prone to errors.

Sockets

Use sockets for connections to custom backends or for standard functions such as whois lookups or web server requests. The api is not just a light wrapper around a raw socket, it is designed from scratch to do the work scripters want to do.

Stopwatch

Time code down to the nearest micro-second. Great for tuning.

Sleeper

Pause for a few milliseconds or two.

HTTPFetcher

Makes it easy to download data from Web Servers.

GMT

Get GMT and convert back to your time zone.

COMUnloader

Unloads COM DLLs that aren't being used. Especially useful for replacing DLLs whilst developing - you don't have to restart the server everytime!

FileIO

Quickly and simply load and save files, including binary Blobs which you can send direct to the client with response.binarywrite.

Sound

Get your server to beep or play a tune every time a page is viewed or a sale is made. Great feedback.