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This example displays some useful file examples . Last accessed , last modified and when the file was created

For whatever reason, there are times when it would be convenient to know how to delete a folder without having to go to the server to do it. This is just one of the things you can do with the File Scripting Object.

There will come a time when you need to dice up a string which is all one word or a number. In this particular case, Split() won't work for you. This page explains how Left() Mid() and Right() work.

Step-by-step tutorial on how to display uploaded binary files from the database using plain ASP pages. Every step has been explained in detail. Downloadable source code available.

With this script, you can retrieve the users screen resolution and color depth. It writes the screen info and the usual visitors' info to an access database. The script only counts unique users.

This is the first of the four-part "Advanced SQL Techniques" series, which describes a quick and efficient way to delete duplicate records from a table.

This is a basic code that allows you email form results using CDO on an NT / IIS server.

Paging is basically querying a database and presenting a page full of the query's results. In ASP and SQL Server programming, there are three approaches to paging. This article compares the approaches and explains which one is the most efficient when dealing with very large sets of data.

It is somewhat ironic that the most confusing part of creating and executing a SQL statement from ASP is determining where to put the quotes. When is a single quote used? When is a double quote used? When are they used together? Which takes precedence? This article will answer these questions.

If a user doesn't find what they are looking for in the first couple clicks, the majority of them will move on to greener pastures. So how do you give the user exactly what they're looking for? This tutorial will show you how. Full source code is also available for download.

This article shows how to generate random records from the database. Also explains how to generate random numbers. Sample Database and Code available for download.

This is a brief and very useful tutorial on creating and using stored procedures with your asp applications. A stored procedure is nothing more than an sql statement stored inside a database. The database can be SQL Server or MS Access as well as others. A stored procedure is compiled by your database (for the most part) one time, when it is entered. This results in faster database executions and overall performance updates, and it further separates the sql statement from your asp leaving you with more readable code. This tutorial describes: What is a stored procedure?, Writing stored procedures, Getting the stored procedure into the database, Calling stored procedures in ASP pages, and Modifying and removing stored procedures.

This introductory tutorial will teach you the basics of vbscript, ASP intrinsic objects, how to call ASP intrinsic objects and make use of them and what makes a .asp page different from a .htm / .html page. After the completion of this tutorial you will be able to start writing your own .asp pages.

Are you interested to know who came to your site? at what time? and what was the referring URL. Here is an example how to make a Log file for an ASP page to keep track of users on your site. This Example use a text file to write user information.

In classic ASP there is no any encrypt function. But you can use this useful source code to encrypt any string data using MD5. MD5 encryption is a one-way hashing algorithm. MD5 is a great advantage because it is speed and easy to use.

This tutorial describes: How ASP server uses cookies to pass an ID with the browser to link multiple HTTP requests together. How ASP server offers the session object to ASP pages to share information between multiple requests or pages. Different ways to pass information between requests or pages. How Perl tools can be used to help debug ASP applications at the HTTP communication level.

ASP has some very usefull functions to deal with date and time : this tutorial let you know more about how to ypou use it very easily.

Simple code to display random banners. Can be intergraded into just about any script.

This is a simple procedure to show how to use an XML file as datasource to build a datagrid in ASP. This code basically shows how to display and navigate/page-thru and xml data file

This is an useful but not known functions. If you wish to learn month of date stored in a database, you may use this function placing in a 'SELECT' sql statement