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Here are a set of very useful functions that allows you to pass variables around via forms, querystrings, and/or cookies. Source code available for download. More free help at www.webforumz.com

This example code demonstrates how to link and display text files within a single document in ASP. Using the title of the text files as hyperlinks, when clicked the file name, the full contents of the document will be displayed. Very useful for making copybooks and file layouts available online.

This article shows how to publish and distribute Microsoft Access reports on the web using ASP.

There are several ways to maintain state in ASP. This article takes a look at them, and a means to determine which ones are best to employ.

This article describes how to build components that take advantage of the new features in IIS and MTS, and provides an extensive list of tips on building components, performance and process isolation, and debugging.

Learn the cool things possible using Flash and ASP. Attractive and interactive Flash interfaces make your pages look fun and interesting. This comprehensive guide teaches you all you need to know about integrating Flash with ASP. In relation to Flash, ASP can be used as a bridge between the database and the flash interface. The potential of Flash-and-ASP has not yet been fully realized and there are not many articles or guides on the web to help you through your quest to find out more. Smart Webby's Guide to Flash 'n' ASP Unleashed is designed to not only teach you to work with this less explored area of web development but also challenge and initiates you into trying to build products by yourself. It shows how to deal with real time situations like display and functioning of forms. Learn among other things how to make a Flash Guest-Book. Enjoy the visual and detailed learning experience that makes it easy for even a novice to understand quickly. It also has consciously included tips and guidelines for achieving better loading speed and small file sizes.

This is a step by step tutorial on uploading and inserting binary data (images, files, etc.) into Access Database. Online demo, and sample code available for download.

This tutorial guides you through, in easy to follow steps, the methods needed to build an ASP component in Visual Basic. Includes downloadable source, easy-to-follow example and screen shots for each stage.

Often you will need to display the contents of a file on your server. This article shows you what regular expressions to use to successfully display HTML, including automatically making any hyperlinks live.

This is an overview of SYSTEM DSN's, DSN-LESS Connections, and any database permissions that may need to be set on the server. Helpful for people just learning ASP as well as people with some experience.

By centralizing database code within ActiveX DLL's, you can simplify your development efforts, and decrease the learning curve for new developers. This article explains how to create a Visual Basic ActiveX DLL that controls database functionality.

This article describes a simple, tracking system using ASP that will collect specific information from a visitor which will give you a good idea as to who is visiting your site and what pages are viewed the most. Source code available for download.

Here is an interesting article that explains how to help the authorities in tracking down people who cause sites to send unwanted email to others by subscribing them to one's newsletter or applying for site membership.

The author notes "Displaying content depending on what the current date value is a powerful and effective tool that adds value to any website. Whether it is to showcase a limited time offer, or to �automatically� update pages with new content while you�re miles away." This example code repeats the process to three times to demonstrate the full effects of date dependent content.

Paging is basically querying a database and presenting a page full of the query's results. In ASP and SQL Server programming, there are three approaches to paging. This article compares the approaches and explains which one is the most efficient when dealing with very large sets of data.

The author writes "A CSV (Comma Separated Values file sometimes referred to as a flat file) is essentially a text file that has a comma delimiter between the table values and a unique line for each observation. While this is usually a means by which data is transferred from one database to another by itself can be used as input to an asp document." This example will show how to take virtually any CSV file and write it to an html table using ASP.

This short example will allow you to dynamically create "static" html documents from an Access data on your web server using Active Server Pages. Basically after reading the contents of the db, instead of writing output to the browser it is written to the server.

The author writes "It is important to know what is going on with your site in development and production. By implementing proper error logging, you can quickly track down errors, and provide your team members with enhanced error information." This tutorial describes how to create a simple and effective logging system using the new ASP Error object.

This article describes using the Office Web Components (OWC) to create an Excel spreadsheet via ASP code based on the results from a database query. All of this complexity is encapsulated in a (rather basic) class.

It is somewhat ironic that the most confusing part of creating and executing a SQL statement from ASP is determining where to put the quotes. When is a single quote used? When is a double quote used? When are they used together? Which takes precedence? This article will answer these questions.