ASA file extension. How to open and convert files with ASA file suffix

Files with asa file extension can also be found as Active Server configuration files. Used with ASP.NET.

There are 2 other file types using
the ASA file extension!

.asa - Microsoft Visual InterDev data

.asa - ArcGIS ArcScene data

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Software that open asa file

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ASA file extension - Active Server configuration

What is asa file? How to open asa files?

File type specification:

Internet related file type

asa file icon:

The asa file extension is also reported to be used for some Active Server document format.

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages. It was initially marketed as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS) via the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, but has been included as a free component of Windows Server since the initial release of Windows 2000 Server.

Programming ASP websites is made possible by various built-in objects. Each object corresponds to a group of frequently-used functions useful for creating dynamic web pages. In ASP 2.0 there are six such built-in objects: Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server, and Session. Session, for example, is a cookie-based session object that maintains variables from page to page. Web pages with the ".asp" file extension use ASP, although some Web sites disguise their choice of scripting language for security purposes. The ".aspx" extension is not an ASP page, but an ASP.NET page, another server-side scripting language from Microsoft, based on a mixture of traditional ASP, and Microsoft's .NET technology. Most ASP pages are written in VBScript.

Updated: January 2, 2025

The default software associated to open asa file:

Microsoft Internet Information Services

Company or developer:
Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is web server application distributed with Microsoft Windows Server as well as some editions of Microsoft Windows. IIS supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP and NNTP protocols.

Microsoft Visual Studio

Company or developer:
Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) used to create applications for Microsoft Windows as well as dynamic websites and web applications. Visual Studio is available for Windows and Mac.

Help how to open:

To view the file (webpage) directly on internet via http protocol, use any common browser available. To edit this file and source code, you can use any text editor or web development application intended to Active Server Pages development like eg. Microsoft Visual Studio etc.

How to convert:

Probably cannot be converted to anything else.

List of software applications associated to the .asa file extension

Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open asa file, edit asa file, convert asa file, view asa file, play asa file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).

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Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting asa files.

Software that open asa file - Active Server configuration

Programs supporting the exension asa on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open asa file action.