Using Server Behaviours – Good or Bad?

Today we’re going to look at Dreamweaver’s ASP Server Behaviours (hereafter SBs). We’ll make use of them to display some data, step by step, and analyse how quick and easy it was to do. We’ll have a look at what happens when we try to take it a step further. Once we realise that the SBs merely provide a starting point, we’ll apply some code by hand to increase the usefulness of our page.
 
Finally, once we have seen both the use of SBs and hand-typed code, we’ll explore the advantages and disadvantages of each. I hope to demonstrate that although SBs are useful, they are quite limited, and that learning to code by hand will provide immense benefits over SBs, both in terms of possibility and performance.