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This tutorial presents a couple of ways to display your data in a graphical way by using charts without using server components. The first approach is using images with ASP to display bar graphs. The second approach is a Java applet that can display a more advanced graph, but depends on a Java capable browser.

This short tutorial explains how to to upload a text file and load it into your database using ASP. It uses a sample of the space-delimited file for an example.

A very important coding method to understand when developing ASP pages is the page that submits to itself. This technique is very powerful and can drastically reduce the number of files you have to maintain and the number of places in which you need to make changes when maintaining code. The concept is simple. Using forms, set the action value to the URL of the page in which the form resides. Then use ASP code to determine what the current state of the page, and present the proper output to the user.

This tutorial explains the complete banner ad system used at the site, "CoverYourASP". Database driven, but using Application variables extensively, it tracks impressions and clickthroughs and is fully automatic. Source code available for download.

This article will show you how to build a stack bar chart using ASP and without using any components. The resulting chart looks quite nice and offers the ability to read the actual data values of the bars through the tooltip text. Source code available for download.

This tutorial shows how to keep information from the user in your server (Session method) and how to share information between users (Application method). This is only a basic tutorial for beginners with only basic features are described.

MySQL is the most popular open source database system available today, and is currently installed on over two million servers worldwide. This article takes a look at using the free MyODBC driver to talk to a MySQL database from an ASP script.

Compact and repair your access database online from ASP code. This is example code of how this can be done.

Handling forms and processing the data you get from them is one of the fundamentals that need to be mastered if you are to develop a dynamic site. This is a very simple introductory tutorial on form handling.

If you want to check a file exists, you may use this code. First we are starting script creating a copy of File System Object. FSO has many useful methods. One of them is 'FileExists' that we will use it now.

Detailed descriptions of the different event log event types that may occur in the windows event log. The windows event logs can be accessed using development tools to aid in overall management.

This tutorial is aimed to show you how it is possible to retrieve a remote file via ASP and FTP without using a 3rd-party component.

Short tutorial about showing the contents of an RSS feed on a webpage using ASP and the XMLDom. Describes each part of the code to make it easier to understand. This is a summary part in my article series about XML, XMLDom and ASP.

This is a simple text-based visitor counter. It uses the IIS PageCounter object and only shows the total (non-unique) number of hits. This is as easy as it gets: copy-paste 3 lines of code into your page and you're done.

This sample ASP Web database can give you ideas about tying everything together and can even be used as a starting point for a Web project.

Have you ever wanted to format a date in your ASP pages (using VBScript) to conform with RFC-822? These are required for various things but in particular they are required format for dates in RSS feeds. While I was producing some RSS feeds I couldn't find any functions that converted ASP dates to the required formats so I created the following functions to do it for you

This article discusses how to deal with various checkboxes in form via ASP. Covers: The Default No-Frills Checkbox, Checkbox With An Associated Value, Multiple Checkboxs With The Same Name, and Checkbox Which Maintains It's State.

This script shows how to send an email via the CDONTS objects available to ASP 3.0. It will take a selection of form input, create the required e-mail objects, send the e-mail to the specified recipient and then redirect the user to a confirmation page, thanking them for their input.

Learn how to take a stored image from a database and display it on your website.

This article will tell you how to find the full URL of the current page with ASP: domain name, path and the QueryString.