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This is a complete tutorial on uploading files to the server hard disk using ASP ( VBScript ).

This 2-page article discusses multiple ways to access XML data from an ASP page. This article provides some great examples and describes the techniques for developers relatively new to XML. If you're interested in learning about XML, or need to brush up on your XML skills, this article is for you.

A code snippet to display the last modified date for any given file dynamically. Every time the file is modified this info is written into the file. The FSO knows just how to read that for you.

A simple code snippet that shows you how to display a visitor's IP Address. Also includes a script to display all of the available server variables.

The If Then Else control structure can be used to run a line or block of code within your script when a certain condition is met.

One way to generate dynamic PDF files is to create PDF template forms and then to fill them on the fly. This article show you how to do so very easily by using the FDF toolkit.

Learn how to create dynamically dependent dropdown lists with. There's an online demo and source code provided.

Are you interested to know who came to your site? at what time? and what was the referring URL. Here is an example how to make a Log file for an ASP page to keep track of users on your site. This Example use a text file to write user information.

This introductory tutorial will teach you the basics of vbscript, ASP intrinsic objects, how to call ASP intrinsic objects and make use of them and what makes a .asp page different from a .htm / .html page. After the completion of this tutorial you will be able to start writing your own .asp pages.

This is a brief and very useful tutorial on creating and using stored procedures with your asp applications. A stored procedure is nothing more than an sql statement stored inside a database. The database can be SQL Server or MS Access as well as others. A stored procedure is compiled by your database (for the most part) one time, when it is entered. This results in faster database executions and overall performance updates, and it further separates the sql statement from your asp leaving you with more readable code. This tutorial describes: What is a stored procedure?, Writing stored procedures, Getting the stored procedure into the database, Calling stored procedures in ASP pages, and Modifying and removing stored procedures.

This article shows how to generate random records from the database. Also explains how to generate random numbers. Sample Database and Code available for download.

If a user doesn't find what they are looking for in the first couple clicks, the majority of them will move on to greener pastures. So how do you give the user exactly what they're looking for? This tutorial will show you how. Full source code is also available for download.

It is somewhat ironic that the most confusing part of creating and executing a SQL statement from ASP is determining where to put the quotes. When is a single quote used? When is a double quote used? When are they used together? Which takes precedence? This article will answer these questions.

Paging is basically querying a database and presenting a page full of the query's results. In ASP and SQL Server programming, there are three approaches to paging. This article compares the approaches and explains which one is the most efficient when dealing with very large sets of data.

This is a basic code that allows you email form results using CDO on an NT / IIS server.

This is the first of the four-part "Advanced SQL Techniques" series, which describes a quick and efficient way to delete duplicate records from a table.

With this script, you can retrieve the users screen resolution and color depth. It writes the screen info and the usual visitors' info to an access database. The script only counts unique users.

There will come a time when you need to dice up a string which is all one word or a number. In this particular case, Split() won't work for you. This page explains how Left() Mid() and Right() work.

Step-by-step tutorial on how to display uploaded binary files from the database using plain ASP pages. Every step has been explained in detail. Downloadable source code available.

For whatever reason, there are times when it would be convenient to know how to delete a folder without having to go to the server to do it. This is just one of the things you can do with the File Scripting Object.