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This is a quick sample code which combines a number of database functions into one script. Includes functions to add, delete, and edit records in a database table. It illustrates a number of useful techniques for database manipulation.

This article explains in graphics how to configure Site Server Direct Mailer, create test members and distribution lists, create template emails, and finally, create and run a Direct Mailer package to send the personalized emails to the target members.

It can really be a pain to register .DLL's on your remote servers. This article will explore how to set up a set of ASP pages to register your DLL's on NT 4. ASP source code available for download.

Using classes in ASP 3.0 we can create dynamic arrays of objects. This article presents a sample code showing how to implement a class of dynamic arrays of objects several layers deep.

This article covers two advanced ADO topics: creating hierarchical Recordsets (via data shaping) and creating custom Recordsets. Specifically, this article looks at how to create custom hierarchical Recordsets. The reader is required to have a fluid understanding of both data shaping and custom Recordsets.

This article shows you how to boost the performance of your ASP Web application by improving the speed at which your browser renders your resultant HTML.

This article explains how to easily migrate HTML pages to XML using HTML Tidy and a COM Wrapper. It discusses a sample conversion of the bookmark file from HTML to XML and then into a browser-neutral tree view. Helpful for sites where a lot of information is maintained as flat HTML pages with their pages sharing similar structure. Supporting source code available for download.

This 2-page article describes how to create a Printer Friendly Page using Microsoft's XMLHTTP component along with regular expressions. It shows how to use XMLHTTP to perform an actual HTTP GET request for the page that you wish to display in a Printer Friendly format. Then, it utilizes regular expressions to pick out chunks of text that the Web page author has defined to not appear in the Printer Friendly format. A neat read highlighting the capabilities of the XMLHTTP component and regular expressions.

This article shows you how to use SQL-DMO to create an Active Server Pages application to backup and verify a SQL Server database. The SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) extend the functionality of SQL Server by providing developers a way to execute common tasks.

The author writes "CoverYourASP's original database administration tool didn't look for foreign keys, and just displayed a confusing list of primary key values. Now, it's been improved with automatically generated list boxes." This tutorial explains how to turn those foreign keys into list boxes automatically.

This article explains ADO connection strings and parameters. By the end of the article you should be able to build appropriate ones on your own instead of cutting and pasting them.

This article presents an example of multiple binary file upload for Web applications using Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology, without the typical limitation of traditional file upload processing. It describes how to use Microsoft XML Parser 3.0 (MSXML) and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Stream objects for a new upload strategy with several benefits. No custom ASP components are required.

This is an example code showing how to conduct searches on a database to display hyperlinked summaries that can be clicked on to display detail data.

This article presents three modular routines to access and fetch data easier with ASP. Topics include: Fetching a Recordset, An alternative to the GetConnectedRecordSet function that opens a connection, fetches a recordset, and immediately closes the connection, and Utilities for Creating Valid SQL Statements.

This article describes three simple techniques which combine persistent cookie management and creative redirects to give users a consistent experience as they move through sites in different subdomains and domains.

This article discusses the usage of persistence with the Application object in detail. Explains when to use Persistence, advantanges and disadvantages of using Persistence, and what types of data exchanges are targets for optimization and the benefits and disadvantages of using persistence with the Application object. Example code available for download.

This article shows how to build a forms validation library using JavaScript and ASP. Its FormLib simplifies form creation and eliminates common forms-maintenance tasks.

Based on an HTML template file, this ASP sample code formats pages of a web site dynamically. It allows you to change the appearance, layout, fonts, colours and pagewidth throughout the whole site just by replacing one template file. It also allows you to display the same pages using different templates: printer friendly versions, small screens, handheld versions, webTV versions, search engine pages, etc.

A discussion of how to use null values effectively in your database tables. Includes a discussion of the logic behind nulls and some practical programming techniques.

This article examines how to strip HTML tags using regular expressions. Regular expressions are nifty little buggers that can be used to perform advanced string pattern matching and replacing.