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This tutorial guides you through, in easy to follow steps, the methods needed to build an ASP component in Visual Basic. Includes downloadable source, easy-to-follow example and screen shots for each stage.

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.

There are several ways to maintain state in ASP. This article takes a look at them, and a means to determine which ones are best to employ.

This article describes how to build components that take advantage of the new features in IIS and MTS, and provides an extensive list of tips on building components, performance and process isolation, and debugging.

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 shows how to publish and distribute Microsoft Access reports on the web using ASP.

Here are a set of very useful functions that allows you to pass variables around via forms, querystrings, and/or cookies. Source code available for download. More free help at www.webforumz.com

Session variables can store user-specific information for you. This tutorial explain how to configure your server and how they work (and when they don't).

This article illustrates a technique to provide dynamic content generated from an ASP page onto a static HTML page. Specifically it explains how to display a page counter on a number of static HTML pages.

This article provides sample source code for a user query parser which allows users to submit full-text search queries from ASP to SQL Server 2000. Full source code available for download.

This article examines how to strip HTML tags using regular expressions. Regular expressions are nifty little buggers that can be used to perform advanced string pattern matching and replacing.

A discussion of how to use null values effectively in your database tables. Includes a discussion of the logic behind nulls and some practical programming techniques.

Based on an HTML template file, this ASP sample code formats pages of a web site dynamically. It allows you to change the appearance, layout, fonts, colours and pagewidth throughout the whole site just by replacing one template file. It also allows you to display the same pages using different templates: printer friendly versions, small screens, handheld versions, webTV versions, search engine pages, etc.

This article shows how to build a forms validation library using JavaScript and ASP. Its FormLib simplifies form creation and eliminates common forms-maintenance tasks.

This article discusses the usage of persistence with the Application object in detail. Explains when to use Persistence, advantanges and disadvantages of using Persistence, and what types of data exchanges are targets for optimization and the benefits and disadvantages of using persistence with the Application object. Example code available for download.

This article presents three modular routines to access and fetch data easier with ASP. Topics include: Fetching a Recordset, An alternative to the GetConnectedRecordSet function that opens a connection, fetches a recordset, and immediately closes the connection, and Utilities for Creating Valid SQL Statements.

This article describes three simple techniques which combine persistent cookie management and creative redirects to give users a consistent experience as they move through sites in different subdomains and domains.

This is an example code showing how to conduct searches on a database to display hyperlinked summaries that can be clicked on to display detail data.

This article explains ADO connection strings and parameters. By the end of the article you should be able to build appropriate ones on your own instead of cutting and pasting them.

This article presents an example of multiple binary file upload for Web applications using Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology, without the typical limitation of traditional file upload processing. It describes how to use Microsoft XML Parser 3.0 (MSXML) and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Stream objects for a new upload strategy with several benefits. No custom ASP components are required.