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Shows the basic methods to display date, time and text in a ASP script. Examples on different ways to display the date and time presented.

This tutorial explains opening, reading and creating files using example codes. Up to 6 examples are used.

This tutorial shows how to keep information from the user in your server (Session method) and how to share information between users (Application method). This is only a basic tutorial for beginners with only basic features are described.

This tutorial explains the basic use of Subroutines and Include virtual using SSI that may be used in ASP pages to make your code cleaner.

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.

The author writes "Many places on the web feature the date that the current document was last modified on. Rather than changing the date manually, using a FrontPage WebBot, or targeting the document by writing it directly into the script, let the server ask the document for the info and it will tell you. This scriptwriter will output code that can be placed on any .asp document on your server and will display the date and time it was last modified in a number of varieties."

This is a two-module tutorial that provides a step-by-step introduction to several ASP features. The tutorial shows how to build sample applications and demonstrates key concepts you'll need to understand when developing your own ASP pages. The introductory section explains what ASP is, how it works, and other technologies that can be used in conjunction with ASP to create active content on your Web site. The first module introduces the creation of an ASP page, and focuses on the collection and transfer of data. It covers: Write and Run an ASP Page, Send Information by Using Forms, Create a Guest Book, Display an Excel Spreadsheet in ASP. The second module covers: Rotate Information Randomly - Shows how to rotate ads on your Web page randomly, and Record Traffic with a Page Counter

This article illustrates how to create a news feed Web service in classic ASP. The Web service created is extremely light-weight, requiring minimal Web server requriements. Basically, it uses a light-weight, cilent-side JavaScript file.

Here you will find an error class called CError that allows you to display a custom dialog box with the option to have a detailed message, a general message, and log the error in a file for later reference. Also uses some JavaScript and DHTML to allow the user to drag the dialog box around.

This article will show you how to build a stack bar chart using ASP and without using any components. The resulting chart looks quite nice and offers the ability to read the actual data values of the bars through the tooltip text. Source code available for download.

This article presents an online exam system that pulls its data from an xml file on the server. The question list for the user is sent to the browser via Microsoft's XMLHTTP Object. Using this same object, the questions are retrieved from the server and displayed on the page whenever the user requests a question.

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.

This is a simple tip that presents an ASP class that can read the properties of a Macromedia Flash file (a .swf file). You can use this handy class to read the height, width, version, file length, twips readings, frame rate, and frame count of a Flash file on your Web server.

This is the first of the four-part "Advanced SQL Techniques" series, which describes a quick and efficient way to delete duplicate records from a table.

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.