If you haven't read them, and are approaching ASP for the first time, I would suggest at least skimming them before jumping into this article. You've probably heard the term object oriented programming bandied about on occasion, whether in newspaper ads seeking to hire programmers or in some other discussion related to current programming trends. I'm sorry to say that writing dynamic Web pages in ASP isn't object oriented programming, strictly speaking. What makes ASP a little special, however, is that very little functionality is actually built into ASP itself. An example of a typical software object in ASP might be a file stored on the server's hard drive.
Methods are actions that can be taken using the object.
Before I boggle your mind further, however, let me calm you down a little by saying that we ve already used an object in the simple scripts that we ve looked at so far. In fact, here's an extremely simple line of one of the first scripts we looked at. This is a special, built-in object that s available to all ASP scripts, and it allows you to write to and otherwise control the flow of data that is sent back to the browser in response to the page request. The Response object also has a counterpart called the Request object, which we'll look at in detail later in this article. In the above line, we used the Write method of the Response object to write a line of HTML as part of the page to be returned to the requesting browser.