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You may have a situation where you have two ASP websites, which could be on different servers, and you need to pass a visitor from the first site to the second site, whilst retaining all the session variables. This is the purpose of the XSess Session transfer script. Note: session array objects are not transferred. The session variables are passed in the querystring, and are encrypted to protect the confidentiality of the contents of the session variables. XSess consists of a function, and a few supporting functions, contained in an include file.

You can upload your images to MS-SQL server with this simple script. To upload a picture to sql database, be sure Persist AspUpoad installed in you server.

This example will display a stock chart for a valid user submitted ticker symbol.

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

This is some sample code for reading a file .

Easy code for creating a file

It is not always necessary to need a complex ad system for your system . The adrotator component is a simple alternative . This shows the basic usage.

This is a common feature on websites showing that there are x visitors on site at present . This example demonstartes how this is achieved

This is a slightly better version of your standard text counter , this example only increments a count once per session whereas a normal counter could increment several times.

This example uses a flat text file to store the count . Shows the basics of file usage in ASP.

This shows the basics of sending email using CDONTS

This example shows to create an xml file using ASP

This example shows how to display an xml file

In this article we are going to try and provide some ideas for you to reduce those calls to the help desk. In this project we created a help desk portal, this portal pretty much has a main page that you can go to download patches, virus definition files, and manage account unlock information. Calls to the help desk for unlocking locked accounts accounted for a large percentage of calls, so in order to streamline the process we created an application that tied in with the intranet user portal.

In this article we are going to try and provide some ideas for your to reduce those calls to the help desk. In this project we created a help desk portal, this portal pretty much has a main page that you can go to download patches, virus definition files, and manage account unlock information. Calls to the help desk for unlocking locked accounts accounted for a large percentage of calls, so in order to streamline the process we created an application that tied in with the intranet user portal. Part of the application design was adding additional fields to the user preferences table called "pin_number", "question", and "answer". As part of the design of the application, we wanted the user to provide a personal identification number, and answer a challenge question that they previously configured in the application. This article is not going to go into every detail of creating the application, but we will provide the ADSI code and some design ideas for creating your own self-service account unlock application.

This tutorial explains how to do recursive subroutines in ASP (VBScript). Use this algorithm to create threaded discussions, directories, or whatever use you have for it.

This article describes practical methods of optimizing the performance of ASP pages which retrieve and display tabular data from a database. Test results of each coding technique show the potential for dramatic speedups of dynamic web pages.

Create a connection to DBF files using JetOLEDB provider (DSN-less, ODBC-less connection), basic work with DBF files (select, insert, update), other ISAM formats + FOXPRO option, real sample code, create a new DBF file.

ASP Web developer tips and guidelines including such things as included files, database passwords, post-back pages, flushing the buffer...