Archive for November, 2007

Review: DeskAway

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Deskaway is Web-based Project Management Software. We talked to Sahil from Deskaway.com about how this system supports our 7 Goals for using PM software.
1. Improve project reporting and tracking
DeskAway's reporting functionalities gives you a printer-friendly scorecard-like project progress report for each and every project that you are a part of. If thats not enough, there […]

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Beyond ASP

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

So, where do you go from here? To begin with, check the new ASP.NET created by Microsoft. The .NET framework was developed by Microsoft in order to integrate the new software and technologies, particularly the powerful XML. So, now there is a Visual Studio .NET, and plenty of things to do with it.
You can […]

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Debugging & Efficiency in ASP

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

All programmers have mistakes in their scripts, it's impossible not to make some. There are several methods to detect and correct them. Microsoft offers a Script Debugger which can be a useful tool, particularly if you've used Microsoft technology all over (ASP and Access, and the JScript or VB languages).
Note that you have to […]

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Database Manipulation in ASP

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

You started learning ASP because you need to create a big, complex site, interactive and easy to update - otherwise, you can use the HTML and save all this trouble. So, if you have a lot of information, you need to store it someplace, and order it - so you'll end up putting it in […]

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Sessions in ASP

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

The Session object helps identify the user for a longer period of time. Think of what happens when you log in into an Internet-based mail account. You have to input your username and password only once - this starts your session - and then you can read and send email for as long as you […]

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Cookies in ASP

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

When you have many visitors, you need to use Cookies to store information in your visitors' computers. Basically, what you do is send some bits of information to your clients, and then request it back, when you need to use it.
If you run a search on the Windows Help about cookies, you'll see that […]

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File Manipulation in ASP

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

When you have to work with complex directors and file structures, you need objects and methods to manipulate them, and ASP has several such built-in options.
In order to work with the files and folders from your web server, you have the FileSystemObject. It can manipulate files, folders, directory paths and retrieve information about them. […]

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Response and Request in ASP

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Let's remember the very first ASP script written, the one that looked like this:
Response.Write("Hello World!")
Now, try to guess what response and write() are. Of course, response is a built-in object of ASP, while write() is one of its methods. You can introduce HTML tags in the string, it will be interpreted correctly:
Response.Write("<b> Hello […]

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Classes in ASP

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Remember when we first introduced the objects, we used the example of a car, which is an object. But the car belongs to a class of objects, the vehicles. This is what happens to the programming objects as well.
You should think of classes as general blueprints for the respective objects. In other words, the […]

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Object Oriented Programming in ASP

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

The Object-Oriented Programming was one of the biggest breakthroughs programmers ever made. It's a different approach to programming, which will make your life a lot easier when you deal with long programs. You don't use the ASP because you want to write "Hello, world!" on a single web page. Instead, you will use it to […]

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