Asp for Web Professionals

Aimed at the beginning or intermediate Web developer, this is an extremely useful, cookbook-style tutorial that helps readers of all levels use ASP (and JavaScript) to create Web pages dynamically by concisely offering a series of simple, effective ASP examples. The full source code is included, along with extensive annotations and suggestions for extending the code in custom projects. This approach is ideal for anyone who appreciates a hands-on approach to learning. The examples themselves are immediately practical. First off, a date-time script gives out a random "tip of the day" read from a text file on the server. Then it's on to basic database programming with ADO and ASP. After a quick tour of database basics, readers learn some expert techniques for generating forms based on any database table without changing ASP code. Topics covered include: date and time functions; working with text files; databases; tables and records; and much more.