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Active Server Pages give great performance, but you can make them even faster with a few tweaks to your code and database connections. Here's a detailed tutorial on how to refine your scripts and ASP features for maximum speed.

Here is a quick sample of searching a DB for certain records. It's really no different then doing any other query except that you need to use wildcards. In ASP / ADO the wildcard character is %. It works the way most of us have come to expect * to work. Why is it %? I have no idea, but it is. An Access 97 version of the database is available for download.

Generic framework showing in detail how to implement forms with ASP, with validation and field persistence.

A Step-by-step tutorial showing you how to create a feedback form using different email systems. Supports CDONTS, JMail, ASPEmail and ASPMail, but more can be added.

This article will explain the problems faced with detecting cookies in ASP and address them one by one. You will then be presented with a cookie detection script written in ASP that you can use on your own site.

The XML data island in IE 5.x provides a simple and convenient way to dynamically alter the content of a Web page using data stored either locally or remotely in XML format. This article demonstrates how to change the data content of your Web application pages client side through the use of DHTML events and dynamic data binding with XML island DSOs, and helps you decide in what format the XML should be saved.

Learn how to add the ability to search through pages on your site by storing keywords in a database table. This tutorial shows one server side include containing one function is all you need.

This article lays out how to use ASP and JScript to open and read XML files.

A tutorial explaining how to use ASP to direct which clip is being played by a flash movie. A solution involves jumping out of a flash movie into an ASP page, then back again. To accomplish the effect of jumping back in at a specific frame, we simply load some variables into the flash movie and use them to jump to the right frame.

This tutorial along with a simple example code shows how to create a database-driven click-through tracking system using ASP. Useful for monitoring click-throughs for banners, hyperlinks or file downloads.

The author writes "When it comes to debugging ASP, you often want to keep track of the variable values throughout the script. This article introduces a procedure that, when invoked, displays all variables in a script along with their values and internal types."

If a user doesn't find what they are looking for in the first couple clicks, the majority of them will move on to greener pastures. So how do you give the user exactly what they're looking for? This tutorial will show you how. Full source code is also available for download.

This tutorial shows how to use a VBScript Class to create calendar based applications quickly so you can focus on functionality rather than worry about what weekday the 1st of January falls on. Some of this calendar features include: Easy positioning and sizing to best suit your application's needs, Dynamic cell width and font scaling based on the size of your calendar, Current day highlighting and activity scheduling capability, Customizable actions for events such as OnNextMonthClick, OnPrevMonthClick and OnDayClick, and Customize titlebar and font color as well as font face.

This tutorial demonstrates a simple way of implementing a tip of the day application that can be syndicated out to other sites.

This tutorial explains how to fetch XML data from an external web site and transform the data into HTML through XSL and ASP.

Initially developed to index ASP pages for a search capability, this article gives you a generic function to walk through your sub-folders using the FileSystemObject. Also discusses recursion and passing functions as parameters.

This article focuses on basic statistical analysis methods and techniques to implement them into the web pages. Topics covered: Measurement Tools - Page Counters, Web Server Logs, Our Own Counter; Simple Statistics; Adding More Fields; Data Normalization, and sample code.

As a follow-up to the "Saving HTML Form Data to XML" article, this tutorial explains how to edit XML files using XSL and ASP. This example assumes that you are familiar with ASP, XML and HTML 4.0.

This tutorial provides a simple solution to find out where your visitors are coming from. This example uses an Access database for logging all of your visitors stats.

Here is a solution to displaying ASP code in an ASP page without executing the code. Useful for displaying the code in an article about ASP.