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A short tutorial showing the basic the basic structure of the global.asa file. Describes different objects: Application_OnStart, Application_OnEnd, Session_OnStart, Session_OnEnd. An active servers counter is used as an example.

This tutorial explains basics of the Dictionary object by using two examples: translation of a number from English to Spanish and password protection.

This article takes a look at three different ways to output content using Response.Write: using context switching, simple Response.Write statements, and Response.Write statements within a With block. Also examines the performance implications of each approach as well as the timing results of the vanilla Response.Write approach in an ASP.NET Web page.

This tutorial explains how to put ASP tags inside of JavaScript blocks so developers can fit large amounts of data into one form on a single page. It provides an overview of things that can be done with dynamic JavaScript with ASP and data queries. Example source code available for download.

Learn how to use the HttpBrowserCapabilities Component of ASP.NET to detect the user browser and develop browser friendly ASP.NET pages.

This article describes every step you need to know to send E-Mails using ASP pages.

The author writes "You know all those email you send using CDO or CDONTS? What happens to the ones that are addressed wrong or if the sender or recipient's address isn't even formatted correctly? This script will let you take a peek at the messages in the mailroot folders. This includes the ones that the SMTP service hasn't delivered yet and even those it's already given up on so you can see what's happening." Source code for the SMTP reader available for download.

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is an encryption program used for secure transmission of files and e-mails. This article describes the concepts of PGP, the installation and configuration of PGP Command Line, and the generation of PGP-encrypted e-mails using ASP.

This article describes how to use Microsoft SQL Server triggers to automatically record all updates and inserts for a particular database table in a customized history table.

This article shows how to create charts generated on the fly from a database, using <a href="http://www.compsysaus.com.au/intrchart">IntrChart</a>. Also explains how to dynamically add hot spots to the bars/slices in our chart and link them to other pages.

This article describes several ways to use a SQL calculated field and the ORDER BY clause to arrange a recordset in random order. It provides a simple tool for verifying that the results are uniformly random. Also shows a technique for bubbling records with certain attributes to the top of an otherwise randomized list.

This article looks at a couple of ways to get the code in the client-side and server-side to communicate each other: Using the Javascript Array and Using ASP and XML.

This article shows a simple way to upload files from client to server using VBS, IE and ADODB as multipart/form-data document. Full source code included.

This article explains a solution on how to increase the performance of your ASP pages that rely on gathering data through several different Recordsets. Specially, using a nifty feature of the ADO Recordset object, Multiple Recordsets, you can store multiple SQL query results in one Recordset object, requiring fewer communications with the database.

This is a simple font customization sample that illustrates how to easily let your visitors pick whatever settings they prefer on your site. It covers the basic process of letting a user pick their settings, previewing the resulting effect, and then saving their configuration for future visits.

Would you like to provide multi-language support on your site? This article discusses three different ways in which you could organize your site to support multiple languages.

Reusability is one of the simplest and the oldest concepts in programming. It is also the most underutilized concept. When implemented correctly and purposefully, it can save time and money, as well as create an inventory for valuable and reusable software assets. This article discusses such topics as what resuability is, why it is important, its usages, and more.

This step-by-step tutorial covers the basics from dynamic resizing of arrays, to useful array functions, to finding elements in an array and passing an array from page to page.

This article covers rarely discussed feature of ADO Recordsets, disconnected Recordsets. It examines what disconnected Recordsets are, how to use them, and what advantages they offer over connected Recordsets. Also examines how to create custom, disconnected Recordsets.

This article describes how to create a simple stats tracking program to demonstrate how to deal with records using XML, instead of ADO Object. Source code available for download.