This is in comparison to VFP and VB. See my response to Arne. Compare building a system with 10 screens and 15 reports with ASP vs VFP with comparible functionality. ASP will take you much longer. Take VFP remove the ability to create a good error handler, remove the debugger, the project manager, the ability to compile, the form builder, the report builder...

My experience with ASP so far has felt like taking a big leap back to Dbase II. Not that I am knocking ASP, it simply isn't as efficient as what developers of the visual languages have become used to.

>I don't understand "ASP becomes unwieldy when an application moves from simple to more complex" as I have read here on the UT a number of times. Poor ASP coding techniques becomes no more "unwieldy" then a poorly written FoxPro application. Good coding techniques and well written documentation should be the norm for any language. Then the platform doesn't get "unwieldy". That being said ...
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>I have not written any VFP web apps but can say ASP is real easy to write if you have a bit of VB or VBA programming behind you. The hardest part will not be the object model, JavaScript, client-server to MS SQL Server, or even ADO. The most difficult part is getting your HTML page to look decent. The HTML tags aren't worth much when doing design (from a programmers point of view). And the difference in IE versus NN gets to be a pain.
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>If a person does choose ASP, there is a ton of free resources, code, components to get off the web. (Start at www.15seconds.com and www.activeserverpages.com) There are also some great sites (including the ones listed above) to ask questions and get tons of GREAT advice (like here on UT).
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>Eventually if you either ASP or VFP, you may want to create some objects in VB or VFP [VFP...that is possible?], although this is not manditory. Just use CreateObject() in a similiar fashion to VFP's CreateObject(). Encapsulate your business logic and database access no matter what platform your build your web applications in. That will make your web applications (as in any type of application) less "wieldy".
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>If you don't know VB, ASP is a good place to get started in since you can use VB Script. This is much much easier to learn then VB. This gives you another language to gain experience in ... more marketability in the future while you are having fun. How many ads do you see for VFP web developers versus ads for ASP developers? Probably a 1 to 5,000 ratio (probably even higher then that).
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>>>I would like to try to use vfp to create a simple web search page that queries data on our mssql server. The user would just input a key word, and I'd like all the associated records spit back. I'd like to do it as simple as possible.. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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>>An alternative method to Paul's would be to use ASP to query the SQL Server directly and not use VFP. This would be the simplest route (maybe not the best though). From what I understand though (and what I have experienced) is that ASP becomes unwieldy when an application moves from simple to more complex.
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>>Just a thought...