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This example code shows how to place a frame around an external link from your site, similar to the method AskJeeves.com site uses. This enables a few things. Useful for displaying a banner ad and/or easy navigation back to your site. This example consists of three parts: linkto.htm, which contains links to a few websites in the convention necessary for the framed click through to work; frame-click.asp, which will track the referring page and the requested and open a frameset and the link being requested; and frame-navigation.asp, which writes out a link for the referring page (or home page when none is detected) and a link to remove the frame to view the target link.

This article describes how to use the refresh method of the ADO Parameters collection to interrogate a stored procedure. It shows how to create the code in an automated fashion for use in VBScript connecting to MS SQL Server 7.

This example shows how to get a list of all current tables in the database, get a list of dependent stored procedures for each table and do it all in a stored procedure.

This code sample demonstrates how to validate an email address using regular expressions. It ensures that an email address is properly syntaxed and ends with a valid TLD (top level domain).

This sample code presents three different ways to show a random image in ASP, each approach illustrated and explained. Source code available for download.

The author writes "Have you ever wondered how long your visitor spends filling out a particular form? Such information is vital for companies that conduct business on the Internet." This article describes how to easily determine how long your users spend filling out forms on your Web pages.

This is a short tip on how to build dynamic cascading style sheets using an ASP page. Stylesheets are useful for separating the content and presentation of a Web page. While cascading style sheets are static text files, it shows how to generate dynamic style sheets using ASP.

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This example shows you how to display news feeds from moreover on your website.

This example shows how to offer the user a choice of news feeds from moreovers list of XML feeds. The user can select which one to display on his/her site. This example includes 10 feeds to choose from but with over 330 feeds available on moreovers site you could have a lot more to choose from.

This short tutorial describes a little function that is useful in debugging your ASP pages. This function, FormDataDump(), outputs all of the form variables being passed into a page. Various options for this function allow the developer to view the values in a 'debugger-style' mode, or in a 'quiet-mode,' in which case the form variable output is hidden from the end user.

AddCriteria is a small function that simplifies the code needed to produce a SQL query from a set of optional criteria posted by a user. This article explains how to use this function.

This article explains how to dynamically change static HTML Web galleries so that the Web galleries match the color, layout, and design of a Web site. It first discusses some tools that will create static HTML Web galleries, then it describes reasons these static Web galleries will need to change. Finally a detailed description of how to actually implement these dynamic changes to static Web galleries will be presented. Source code available for download.

This article shows how to use Internet Explorer's (IE's) modal dialog functionality to divide complex Extensible Markup Language (XML) data manipulation into simple, efficient, manageable units. To explain the technology, it uses the process of building an ice cream sundae as the example throughout this article.

This article examines how to use VBScript classes to transform XML documents for use in a Web application. It creates a handy class to perform a number of XML features, such as rendering XML information from an XSL stylesheet and returning plain XML data. This class encapsulates XML and XSL functionality, making it easier to display XML data in a number of ways.

This article shows how to create an XML document from a Recordset using the Microsoft XMLDOM object. It explains how to create a custom function that will take the contents of a Recordset and return a much friendly-on-the-eyes XML version. Once the ASP page calls this function and has, as a string, the XML structure, it can either save it to disk or write out the contents via Response.Write.

This code sample will show you how to send HTML-formatted email messages. The code is written using CDO for 2000, but there is a CDONTS version as well for those of you still running on NT4.

This is a basic tutorial on ASP for beginners which will get them started in writing Active Server Pages. Topics covered: Installing Personal Web Server, Your first ASP page, and Understanding ASP Objects.

ASPRSS has a subscription service that automatically submits articles to all the ASP directories out there. This article shows how the data is submitted to their forms using the IP*Works! WebForm component.

This article illustrates some great uses of the File System Object. It shows how to choose a drive to search, and then builds a listbox of all the folders on that drive. Choose a folder and it builds a listbox of all the files in that folder. Choose a File and it will display it in the browser or prompt you to save the file to your hard drive.