Past ASP 10-Minute Solutions

Past ASP 10-Minute Solutions

		Creating Clickable Appointments Creating a new appointment in Outlook based on information visible in a browser is a manual process. Automate this process by providing your users with a clickable appointment feature that automatically copies the appointment information into their desktop e-mail/calendar application.
		Simplifying Date Data Entry, Part III How to create a visual calendar metaphor without popups. With some creative DHTML, the date can be selected within the same browser window by using a drop-down calendar control metaphor.
		Simplifying Date Data Entry, Part II How to make a calendar page pop-up functional by filling in user-entered date fields on a form.
		Simplifying Date Data Entry with Calendars, Part I Create a visual calendar metaphor to allow users to enter dates in the format your application requires.
		Excellent Charts with Microsoft Excel and ASP How to generate graphs from an ASP page so you'll never again have to jump through hoops with ASP code to generate static HTML displays.
		Bringing the Web to Your In-Box Use this technique to send an entire Web page to your friend (or yourself)—text, HTML formatting, graphics, and all.
		Displaying Recordset Data in a Paged Fashion - Part IIIb: Using Remote Data Services Remote Data Services can be used to access live data from a database and send a recordset object back to the browser where it can then be manipulated. Thus, you can enable a paging mechanism where the user navigates from page to page.
		Display Recordset Data in a Paged Fashion - Part IIIa Learn to use the Tabular Data Control (TDC) feature of Internet Explorer to let users navigate from page to page without making a round trip back to the server for data.
		Optimize and Enhance the Paged Recordset Techniques Learn how to improve data access performance to load your pages faster and how to incorporate sorting and filtering on paged recordset data.
		Display Recordset Data in a Paged Fashion - Part II How to display data, hitting the server and database only once no matter how many pages are requested. This solution uses DHTML and will work on Netscape Communicator 4.0 and above and Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0 and above.
		Display Recordset Data in a Paged Fashion - Part I How to display data, hitting the server and database once for each page requested. This solution will work on any browser and will give your users the ability to move from page to page and even jump to a distant page by choosing a drop-down menu option.
		Write to a Database Using SQL and ASP You can write to a database by creating and modifying a recordset and then updating the recordset or by issuing a SQL statement that contains the values to be updated. Find out how.
		Filter Data from a Database How to display a list of states as they exist in the database as a drop-down menu (combo box) and display more than one field that the user can choose from to filter records.
		Display Selective Data from a Database Learn how to pick and choose what to display from a database based on the user's choice.
		Display Data from a Database in Your ASP Page This ASP primer will show you how to access data in a database from your ASP page.
		Sneaky ASP Tricks - 1: Display Progress During ASP Page Processing This article explains how to display a progress indicator in your ASP page when it is processing.
		Handling E-mail with HTML, CDO, and SMTP - Part II Use Active Server Pages code to read the mail from a basic SMTP e-mail mailbox on an intranet and put all the relevant fields into an Access database.
		Got Data? Send It to Your Users as an Excel Spreadsheet from Your ASP Page To send data as an Excel spreadsheet, first indicate to the browser that the data that is coming is in Excel format, then format your data as a set of Comma Separated Values. Get a step-by-step tutorial.
		Handling E-mail with HTML, CDO, and SMTP How to play postmaster using Active Server Pages (ASP), Collaboration Data Objects for NT Server (CDONTS), and the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service.