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ASP Classic - Using Parameterized Queries

I have helped a lot of people on EE with their coding sources and have enjoyed near about every minute of it. Sometimes it can get a little tedious but it is always a challenge and the one thing that I always say is:

The Exchange of information is power;
Power is the Exchange of Knowledge;
Knowledge is the Power that you have to help others in need of your help...

Setting up IIS7.5 in Windows 7 to run Classic ASP Web Sites

Hello, all! I just recently started using Microsoft's IIS 7.5 within Windows 7, as I just downloaded and installed the 90 day trial of Windows 7. (Got to love Microsoft for allowing 90 days) The main reason for downloading and testing Windows 7 is to test my current websites using Internet Explorer (IE) 9. (Of which all my sites run perfectly under IE9)

Now, I run ASP Cl...

Classic ASP script for Pausing a script, without sending the CPU to 100%

Have you ever needed to get an ASP script to wait for a while? I have, just to let something else happen. Or in my case, to allow other stuff to happen while I was murdering my MySQL database with an update.

The Original Issue

This was written to stop an update script from using all of the CPU itself. It was slowing down all of the other services on the server, as it ...

FAQ: Classic ASP vs. ASP.NET

I was asked about the differences between classic ASP and ASP.NET, so let me put them down here, for reference:

Let's make the introductions...

Classic ASP was launched by Microsoft in 1998 and dynamically generate web pages upon user interaction and server-side processing; this model is complementary to serving static web pages like well-known...

Dynamically Parameterized Queries for Classic ASP

I would like to start this tip/trick by saying Thank You, to all who said that this could not be done, as it forced me to make sure that it could be accomplished. :)

To start, I want to make sure everyone understands the importance of utilizing parameterized queries.

They are useful in preventing SQL Injection, and reducing the size of as well as reducing the size of the ...

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FAQ: Classic ASP vs. ASP.NET

I was asked about the differences between classic ASP and ASP.NET, so let me put them down here, for reference:

Let's make the introductions...

Classic ASP was launched by Microsoft in 1998 and dynamically generate web pages upon user interaction and server-side processing; this model is complementary to serving static web pages like well-known...

Classic ASP script for Pausing a script, without sending the CPU to 100%

Have you ever needed to get an ASP script to wait for a while? I have, just to let something else happen. Or in my case, to allow other stuff to happen while I was murdering my MySQL database with an update.

The Original Issue

This was written to stop an update script from using all of the CPU itself. It was slowing down all of the other services on the server, as it ...

Dynamically Parameterized Queries for Classic ASP

I would like to start this tip/trick by saying Thank You, to all who said that this could not be done, as it forced me to make sure that it could be accomplished. :)

To start, I want to make sure everyone understands the importance of utilizing parameterized queries.

They are useful in preventing SQL Injection, and reducing the size of as well as reducing the size of the ...

Setting up IIS7.5 in Windows 7 to run Classic ASP Web Sites

Hello, all! I just recently started using Microsoft's IIS 7.5 within Windows 7, as I just downloaded and installed the 90 day trial of Windows 7. (Got to love Microsoft for allowing 90 days) The main reason for downloading and testing Windows 7 is to test my current websites using Internet Explorer (IE) 9. (Of which all my sites run perfectly under IE9)

Now, I run ASP Cl...

ASP Classic - Using Parameterized Queries

I have helped a lot of people on EE with their coding sources and have enjoyed near about every minute of it. Sometimes it can get a little tedious but it is always a challenge and the one thing that I always say is:

The Exchange of information is power;
Power is the Exchange of Knowledge;
Knowledge is the Power that you have to help others in need of your help...

See more articles

Frequently Asked Active Server Pages (ASP) Questions

Insert SQL Query upon receiving mail in mailbox

Team - may be a dumb question / difficult one.

I have a mailbox. Lets say "CorporateMailbox". What I need is, Whenever any user sends an email with the subject line "123456 1x1 completed for 987654", I need to auto-write an sql query to a table which will say, Insert into 1on1table (Submitternt, Submitterid, type, status, Employeei...

ABCpdf: AddImageURL

Hello Experts,

I just downloaded ABCpdf, and I'm hoping if you could help me gert started...

More specifically, I created a very simple HTML page (one logo and contact info in a <table width="800" border=0>), and I'm trying to write that to pdf.

As you'll see from my ABCpdf code below, I'm usiing a Inse...

Converting Military Date Time Group (DTG) to Standard Date Format

Hello all,

Can the following be done in SQL or do I need to use JavaScript or ASP. What I want to do is update a date field with data from a text field.

Field A - is a text field containing the Military Date Time Group (DTG) in the format
DDHHMMZFEB09
DD - is the day
HHMMZ - is the time (zulu) or greenwich
FEB - month
09 ...

AT COMMAND GSM Modem using USSD & Vbscript

Hi EE
I attached the code snipped here:

i try using via Hyperterminal to check balance my prepaid. using ussd at command *124# and its works return msg "OK" then new line " Your Prepaid Balance isxxxxxxxx"

My Problem is when i try to use MSCOMMLib.MSComm from my vbscript file. its not works...

websupergoo ABCPDF ASP

I have created a script (see below) which was working yesterday, but with no notable change is now not working in the morning.

THe error that I am getting is:

ABCpdf error '80131600'

Failed to configure IE9 for MSHtml engine: Access denied while writing to registry. For IIS applications, please enable 'Load User Profile'.

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