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It is possible to store images in a database using a number of third party tools or a custom built component. Once you have the images stored in your database, however, displaying them requires the use of a simple ASP page. This tutorial explains how to retrieve images from a database table and use them in an HTML page.

Select boxes must often communicate with one another (i.e., a Child select object's option values depend on the value selected in the Parent object). This tutorial details how to create a hierarchy of select objects using ASP, SQL, ADO, and JavaScript.

Once a day the CoverYourASP site automatically sends out email reminders and deletes members who haven't confirmed their email address for 10 days. This tutorial explains how to remove those who have not confirmed their email addresses for 10 days. Pure ASP, and the whole site source is available for free download.

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.

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.

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 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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.