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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.

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the FileSystem object to view the contents of a server directory. It could easily be modified into a navigation or file-download application.

This article describes how to build a very powerful, potentially destructive application using the File System Object. It should never be implemented in a production environment without ensuring that proper security precautions have been taken to maintain the integrity of the data contained on the web server.

This tutorial shows you how to create a file archive on your site using the built-in File Access Component. You can easily customize how yout page looks. Full source is available for download.

Building an upload file mechanism on a Web server can often require using a costly DLL. Tiago Halm's article shows you how to upload a file using only Active Server Page (ASP) code and Internet Explorer. Sample code is provided.

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.

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 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 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.

This article shows a simple way to upload files from client to server using VBS, IE and ADODB as multipart/form-data document. Full source code included.

This article shows how easily we can handle file through asp.

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.

In this sample ASP code, we will read and count the lines in a text file. This study uses FileSystem Object and readline method.

The scope of this code sample is focusing how to find and display of any file's last modified date & time. Probably, you've used to see some pages on web, written at bottom of page last modified date. Now we will create a simple code to do this.

Tutorial and Code - Create and write content to a text file using ASP

This is a simple script that lists the files present in the specified folder (directory). It uses VBScript's FileSystemObject to scan and return list of files in the specified folder that match specified filename extension(s). In addition to file names, the script also shows file size and last modified date. The example also demonstrates a naive use of RegExp object to match multiple file extensions. A standalone VBScript function plus an accompanying ASP example to display the date is provided.