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This script loads 10 random questions from an Access database and creates a javascript quiz from them. There are buttons to display the current score and to display the answers.

This tutorial provides introduction to XML and then moves on to create an XML page. Step by step instructions are given to read the data from XML file using ASP pages. Sample Code and online demo available.

Introductory tutorial on the basics of arrays as well as the LBound, UBound, and Split functions that are commonly used with arrays. Tutorial includes code snippets.

This source code displays results dividing to pages. Code provides Next Previous page links with numeric page numbers. You may modify source code to use with MS SQL or MS Access database. For this example, we have used MS SQL Server using sample database Northwind.

Generating Excel files from web pages or other applications is a major subject in many articles. I'd like to present here some solutions, part of them, already presented and well known. Some of them require MS Excel to be installed on the server, and other not. Read here a few solutions.

Short samples to create plain and stacked bar chart, with HTML code only, without external images (.gif etc.). Lets you create simple graph and trend indicator from database recordset/dataset.

This example shows to create an xml file using ASP

This step-by-step guide presents a free cut-and-paste example code of a username and password login web based system. Developed using ASP, MySQL and JavaScript. FREE code, no catches, no adware, no hassle. Just enjoy :-)

This article presents a nice little chat system that uses Microsoft's XMLHTTP Object to transfer the messages and user list. It features public as well as private modes, and is currently configured so that the browser requests the current users list from the server every 5 seconds. This article assumes that you are familiar with ASP, XML and HTML.

How to build a simple shopping cart with UltraDev 4 and some "Cut 'n Paste" ASP code. Part of the ongoing "UltraDev-UltraEasy" series of tutorials. This tutorial covers the building of a basic E-Commerce site consisting of Product Management, Product Catalogue, Shopping Cart, Checkout and mailing the Orders and Confirmations. Source code available for download.

This article explains how to dynamically change static HTML Web galleries so that the Web galleries match the color, layout, and design of a Web site. It first discusses some tools that will create static HTML Web galleries, then it describes reasons these static Web galleries will need to change. Finally a detailed description of how to actually implement these dynamic changes to static Web galleries will be presented. Source code available for download.

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This is a complete tutorial on how to create your own 'members-only' area on your website. The author writes "A frequent task for ASP developers is to create a members area style section of a website. This would normally involve registration, a login page, and then access to a section of the site that is only available to registered users. This tutorial will cover the steps needed to create all 3 sections."

This article describes using the Office Web Components (OWC) to create an Excel spreadsheet via ASP code based on the results from a database query. All of this complexity is encapsulated in a (rather basic) class.

In this tutorial we will compare dates. We will use DateDiff function. You may compare any two valid dates calculation year, day, month, week, minute ans seconds.

This function is very useful, if you wish to get date of current SQL server date and time. You may use this function to fill some rows automatically with current time or using with DateDiff function to return the number between current time.

When inserting a date into an Access database you should use the format YYYY-MM-DD. Our function AccessDate returns a date in YYYY-MM-DD format. When working with a date in Access always use the # delimiters in your SQL statement.

This simple ASP/VBScript code sample shows how you can export data from a database table to a CSV file without using any components or database drivers. The script accesses the table through an ADODB Recordset object, converts the values into the CSV format and sends the data to the browser along with appropriate response headers. This code should be saved as an ASP script on a webserver. You should see an "Open/Save As..." dialog when you access the script through a web browser.

Sometimes you need to copy files to another folder. First you should require to use FSO (File System Object.) CopyFile method of FSO is the simplest way to copy the files. Following sample code will copy some files to another folder.

The author writes "For small data bits on a server where the chance for significant simultaneous traffic is not likely excel can perform many of the basic tasks that can be accomplished in Access or SQL Server, but on a much smaller scale." This exmaple code demonstrates how to display data from Excel using sample data of Hank Greenberg's career statistics. Example code available for download.