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This tutorial demonstrates how to use the FileSystem object to view the contents of a server directory. It could easily be modified into a navigation or file-download application.

This article explains what Active Server Pages is, and presents a few short examples such as ASP Syntax, Browser Detection.

This tutorial explains how to find out which links people are clicking on using ASP. It works for internal links, newsletters, and even links to other sites.

Now everybody can connect to a database. Simple database access is a huge feature of ASP and one of the most widely used by developers but when you are first learning, it�s hard to separate the database stuff from the rest of the code so I made this example. I even removed the includes and everything.

This is an introductory tutorial on ASP data access. It covers Connection Object, Command Object, and Recordset Object.

Cookies can be a good method for passing data between pages and especially for retaining data between sessions. Today, it's pretty safe to assume that anyone who is using your site can use cookies, since nearly every site that is non-static makes use of them(including all ASP sites that use sessions). It is also possible to set and read cookies using client-side code, but it is a bit more difficult. Reading and writing cookies using Active Server Pages' built in Request and Response objects is incredibly easy.

This is a tutorial on creating COM component using Java.

This article at Stradeveloper.com is an in depth tutorial on calling and using five ASP intrinsic objects from within COM Component using Visual Basic. Sample Visual Basic project files, component and ASP page available for download.

This tutorial shows you how to automatically censor specific words on posts for message boards or guestbooks when posted. It provides a function called CensorStr to do the job.

This article shows a nifty little script, which, with just one ASP page, allows you to dynamically search a column in a table using a string comparison. This one script can be used over and over due to its dynamic nature. Hopefully this script will save you valuable time by cutting down on the often repetitive task of creating small, searching scripts.

This is a tutorial on creating and using COM Component: Sample chapter from Beginning ATL 3 COM Programming.

Complete tutorial on editing and updating records in the database. Each and every step explained in detail for ASP beginners. Both Connection and Recordset Objects discussed.

Connections, Commands and Procedures is a sample chapter from Professional Active Server Pages which discuss in depth all the issues related with establishing connection to a database to the carrying out of commands and procedures.

Here, you will find reference material on Active Server Pages 3.0 Object model. Browse through all the methods, collections, properties and events in ASP Object Model (Six built-in Objects including the new ASPError Object).

This article will show how to connect an Access database to your Active Server Pages using Microsoft FrontPage. This is a beginning-level article with plenty of screen shots to show how to connect via ODBC, generate a SQL query in Access and construct the Active Server Page.

SQL, Structured Query Language, is the most powerful tool to connect to a database regardless of the form of the database. However, building a perfect SQL statement can be very frustrating. Especially debugging -- the error message simply didn't tell you where the error is. This tutorial provides a nice summary of SQL statements.

ODBC is great and all but for speed and reliability you should switch to OLE DB to power your database driven apps. This tutorial will show you how to do it two ways: in the global.asa and in any ASP page.

Many a time, you are confronted with creating a system DSN for use with ASP. If you have an ISP account, this might take time and more than sometimes - money. This article describes how to use File DSNs and save time and money. Also, you can reuse these DSNs and thus, with some modifications, use the same DSN for as many database connections.

Active Server Pages allow us an easy means of querying and updating a database from a webpage. This article describes the basics of using this technique in a nutshell. The examples given here utilize a Microsoft Access database, but the principles elucidated apply equally well to ASP integration with other databaes.

This tutorial shows you step-by-step how to make a banner rotate include file for including in your ASP pages. All source code is available.