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There is a very cool way to download or grab a file using ServerXMLHTTP class. Using this object you could access and download a remote file out side of your website.

Filter method is very useful working with large datasets. You might need to put only some records from your database but you should select all data from database. Fileter method is advantage working on recordsets after querying on SQL command.

This sample ASP script we will search a custom query in an SQL database. We will use two custom script in one page and will take query results divided in pages. before starting to use this script, you must modify sql query and database connection.

Sometimes we worry about limits of database table and we need to know how manay recods we have. In ASP we could count all recods using a loop. But if we have a small piece of knowledge about SQL script, our script works better and faster.

Unexpected errors can stop programs and your application coul be down immadiately. But 'On Error Resume Next' funtcion help you to avoid to stop unexpected errors on code. All you need to put this code after a code block.

While passing variables as an URL's querystring, you should need to encode the string. All special characters like space must be written in adress bar in a form for browser.

In this series of our ASP Developer Articles, we will examine a new VbScript function called as ' The Len() Function'. With LEN functions you can calculate the length of the string. Following function calculates the length of a string taken from input area.

If you are developing a password-protected web site, you have to make a decision about how to store user password information securely. This article will show you how to encrypt user passwords with md5 algorithm and how to start using encrypted passwords if you already have users' database ready.

This article will help you to find answers to the problems some users have with ASP on Windows 2003.

With DatePart() function in VBScript language you could take only some parts of current time and display/use in your applications. Following examples will show you and give a brief on this function. .

To use an object in ASP, you should create an instance of an object. We use 'CreateObject method' creating object. Let's see it on an real application. .

By implementing this code on your site, you can display the number of visitors that are currently browsing your site. It increments a counter every time that a unique session begins on your site and decrements a counter every time that a session ends.

If you use this code, with the changes suggested in the comments, you will be able to completely validate a submitted e-mail address. It checks for invalid characters, an invalid domain, and an invalid or missing MX record at the domain.

ASP performs several types of repetitive operations, called "looping". Loops are set of instructions used to repeat the same block of code till a specified condition returns false or true depending on how you need it. This tutorial shows the basic idea on how to use looping statements in ASP, along with examples, and descriptions of the examples.

A cookie is a message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The main purpose of cookies is to identify users and possibly prepare customized Web pages for them. This article explains benefits of using cookies and shows how to create and retrieve them. Dictionary cookies are also explained.

This tutorial helps you understand: How ASP server presents the programming environment to ASP pages with a number of run-time objects. Basic properties and methods of run-time objects: request, response, server, application, and session.

Response.redirect is used to move any request form client to another page. This is most common usage to tell browser to get another page and to redirect any request to other source.

In VBScript language there is no any function for Input/Output on hard disk. But you may use FileSystem Object to create and edit files on server. This is an indirect technics to create any file on server.

You can use transactions in ASP as a kind of insurance policy for your database activities, making them safer and providing better error recovery. Transactions are most useful when doing multiple actions on multiple tables. The example below shows just how easy it is to use transactions from ASP, inserting a record into a table and doing a "rollback" if there's a problem.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to implement user authentication in ASP by using an Access Database. We will need a Microsoft Access Database and some ASP code. ASP code wll be used to access to database and valide member information. The database is for storing authorized member information. First, we need to create an Access Database table in which we will store the username and password of the authorized user. But, we will first create a directory under IIS where we will store our files. Create a directory under C:Inetpubwwwroot and name it as ''members''.