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This is a group of 3 tutorials that guide you through the process of using an MS Access Database in ASP. The tutorials teach you how to connect to a database, add data to the database, update the database, and delete from the database. The 3 tutorials together allow you to build a simple Guestbook for your web site.

This is a simple text-based visitor counter. It uses the IIS PageCounter object and only shows the total (non-unique) number of hits. This is as easy as it gets: copy-paste 3 lines of code into your page and you're done.

This tutorial explains how to create a simple chat system using ASP. To start with create a simple form where the user can type some text. Whatever the client types in this form has to be appended to a text file, this text file will then be displayed to the client. The actual writing to the text file is done with an Active Server Script.

This tutorial shows a quick and easy way to generate Excel reports using just ASP. It allows the server to dynamically create Excel reports without taking up any space on the server, and also allows multiple concurrent users to receive these reports simultaneously. The generated reports can be complete with Excel formulas, which allows intensive calculations to be moved to the client side. This method only works with Excel 97 or later.

Self explaining sort scripts to compare dates. You may use them to display your age, time period fromm a given date or happening etc. (DateDiff, Timer)

Step-by-step tutorial on how to upload files (images, etc) from the client browser to the server hard disk using plain ASP pages. Complete application source code is available for download including the code to upload and display uploaded files to the user in an eary to use and understand manner.

This code example demonstrates how to create excel documents on your server. Using the US state info db, after reading the contents of the db instead of writing output to the browser, html text is written to the server with the .xls file extension. A link to the new document is created (in the browser) for easy navigation to the new document. The current time (server time) is also displayed to show that the excel document was created dynamically.

This article explains how to design and program a multifunctional shopping cart application using SQL Server, ASP, and ODBC. Source code available for download.

This article explains how to connect a Flash movie to an Access database, and use an ASP page to query the database and transfer information over to the Flash movie. It shows how to build a very simple Flash address book to demonstrate the technique. Full source code available for download.

ASP form input can be transformed into most any type of format that you'd like to see it in. Typically, most form input either gets delivered to a database, like Access or SQL server or the output is sent to an email address or some other application. This example will show you how to take user input and create an excel file of that input on the server. The title that the user inputs will be used to name the document. When utilizing this script on your site please keep in mind that the directory that you execute the .asp code from must have user write authority established on the server.

Step by step tutorial on creating a database driven ASP search engine from scratch. Important info for beginners on using ASP intrinsic objects and dealing with databases. Complete search engine available for download.