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The author writes "CoverYourASP's original database administration tool didn't look for foreign keys, and just displayed a confusing list of primary key values. Now, it's been improved with automatically generated list boxes." This tutorial explains how to turn those foreign keys into list boxes automatically.

This 2-page article describes how to create a Printer Friendly Page using Microsoft's XMLHTTP component along with regular expressions. It shows how to use XMLHTTP to perform an actual HTTP GET request for the page that you wish to display in a Printer Friendly format. Then, it utilizes regular expressions to pick out chunks of text that the Web page author has defined to not appear in the Printer Friendly format. A neat read highlighting the capabilities of the XMLHTTP component and regular expressions.

This article shows you how to use SQL-DMO to create an Active Server Pages application to backup and verify a SQL Server database. The SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) extend the functionality of SQL Server by providing developers a way to execute common tasks.

This article explains how to easily migrate HTML pages to XML using HTML Tidy and a COM Wrapper. It discusses a sample conversion of the bookmark file from HTML to XML and then into a browser-neutral tree view. Helpful for sites where a lot of information is maintained as flat HTML pages with their pages sharing similar structure. Supporting source code available for download.

This article covers two advanced ADO topics: creating hierarchical Recordsets (via data shaping) and creating custom Recordsets. Specifically, this article looks at how to create custom hierarchical Recordsets. The reader is required to have a fluid understanding of both data shaping and custom Recordsets.

This article shows you how to boost the performance of your ASP Web application by improving the speed at which your browser renders your resultant HTML.

It can really be a pain to register .DLL's on your remote servers. This article will explore how to set up a set of ASP pages to register your DLL's on NT 4. ASP source code available for download.

Using classes in ASP 3.0 we can create dynamic arrays of objects. This article presents a sample code showing how to implement a class of dynamic arrays of objects several layers deep.

This is a quick sample code which combines a number of database functions into one script. Includes functions to add, delete, and edit records in a database table. It illustrates a number of useful techniques for database manipulation.

This article explains in graphics how to configure Site Server Direct Mailer, create test members and distribution lists, create template emails, and finally, create and run a Direct Mailer package to send the personalized emails to the target members.

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.

ASPRSS has a subscription service that automatically submits articles to all the ASP directories out there. This article shows how the data is submitted to their forms using the IP*Works! WebForm component.

This is a basic tutorial on ASP for beginners which will get them started in writing Active Server Pages. Topics covered: Installing Personal Web Server, Your first ASP page, and Understanding ASP Objects.

This article shows how to create an XML document from a Recordset using the Microsoft XMLDOM object. It explains how to create a custom function that will take the contents of a Recordset and return a much friendly-on-the-eyes XML version. Once the ASP page calls this function and has, as a string, the XML structure, it can either save it to disk or write out the contents via Response.Write.

This code sample will show you how to send HTML-formatted email messages. The code is written using CDO for 2000, but there is a CDONTS version as well for those of you still running on NT4.

This article examines how to use VBScript classes to transform XML documents for use in a Web application. It creates a handy class to perform a number of XML features, such as rendering XML information from an XSL stylesheet and returning plain XML data. This class encapsulates XML and XSL functionality, making it easier to display XML data in a number of ways.

This article shows how to use Internet Explorer's (IE's) modal dialog functionality to divide complex Extensible Markup Language (XML) data manipulation into simple, efficient, manageable units. To explain the technology, it uses the process of building an ice cream sundae as the example throughout this article.

This short tutorial describes a little function that is useful in debugging your ASP pages. This function, FormDataDump(), outputs all of the form variables being passed into a page. Various options for this function allow the developer to view the values in a 'debugger-style' mode, or in a 'quiet-mode,' in which case the form variable output is hidden from the end user.

AddCriteria is a small function that simplifies the code needed to produce a SQL query from a set of optional criteria posted by a user. This article explains how to use this function.

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