HSP/EzStor Tutorial

Running your HSP Application

Now that you have created your content and zipped it up nicely into an EzStor/HSP file, you are ready to run it. Do so by clicking on it in Explorer. Since we have set cust_table.asp to be the startup file, this is what we will see first.

The cust_table.asp ASP file generates the customer listing shown above. Clicking on a customer name loads the customer details page shown below. It does this by passing a standard Querystring in the URL. Here is an example of a complete URL for the page below:

x-hsp://c:/website/Tutorial/Sample/Sample.hsp/display_cust.asp?custno=ANTON

The ASP code picks up the CUSTNO Querystring and uses its value to retrieve the customer record from the database.

Distribution

To distribute your HSP application, you only need to ship two files: Your HSP file and the HSP DLL (hsppp.dll). You can optionally burn a CD and use our autorun.exe to automatically install the HSP DLL and open your HSP Application in IE. Additionally, we provide HSP in a signed CAB file for automatic installation from a website. Furthermore, HSP has an Internet download facility that allows you to actually download an HSP file from a website by specifying a URL, like this:

x-hsp://www.eztools-software.com/intro.hsp

The above URL will download the file from the specified website before opening it, thus making the entire process seamless to the user. Of course, the HSP DLL must already be installed to do this.

Conclusion

You have seen how to run ASP webpages on a PC without the use of Microsoft IIS or Personal Web Server using a single, plug-in DLL (known as a Pluggable Protocol handler). HSP loads HTML, graphics, Flash and ActiveX files and runs ASP files stored in EzStor files (or from the file system), and can run entire ASP websites or can be used for other types of presentation, such as tutorials and distance learning educational purposes. EzStor also protects your intellectual property so you can safely distribute it without fear of it being pirated. HSP also works with the Microsoft webbrowser ActiveX control (and our WOW control) from within your Windows and .NET applications.

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