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Feb 24 2001 ____________________________________________________________               C o v e r Y o u r A S P . c o m              Welcome to the latest newsletter!                  http://CoverYourASP.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Small incremental improvements this week (the best kind). I just love the grey border to the site, and the new size, and especially that advertisers have a new spot to advertise in! Do americans say "advertizer" with a z? It just doesn't look right to me I'm afraid, and I've already called my page Advertising.asp, so I'm stuck with it! Of course the bad news was that I lost the lead in the ASP Guild contest, but don't feel bad - I knew it would happen sometime! Maybe my "secret weapon" will make the site popular enough to get the lead back before it's all over? hehehehe. ____________________________________________________________         A   W O R D   F R O M   M Y   S P O N S O R S                 http://www.codecharge.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Powerful Code Generation tool for Professionals and Beginners - develop database-driven web applications in matters of hours. Developing anything from Grids & Forms to Portals and Intranet just became easier. CodeCharge generates ASP, JSP, PHP, Perl, CFML and comes with examples of Online Store, Bug Tracking System, Task Management System, etc.              Visit http://www.codecharge.com/ ____________________________________________________________                     T H E   D I A R Y                The events of the last week             http://CoverYourASP.com/ShowDiary.asp ____________________________________________________________ ______ 17 Feb ______ - Please welcome a new sponsor: /n software. IP*Works! V4 ASP Edition includes 30 components, optimized for Active Server Page programming.  The standard IP*Works! components are all included, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, REXEC etc. Also included are new, higher level components such as WebUpload, WebForm, FileMailer, TraceRoute, and more.   The package includes sample ASP pages demonstrating how to access Web Services such as Yahoo Stock Quotes and UPS Address Verification. http://www.nsoftware.com/ ______ 19 Feb ______ - The site membership just had a quick burst and sped past 1,000 - there are now more members than newsletter subscribers! Wanna join in? http://CoverYourASP.com/MemberEdit.asp - I just reserved the second space down in the right column for advertisers who prefer 125x125 or 130x110 sized banners. Thanks to Shawn Jackson of ActionJackson.com who was the first to take the space! http://CoverYourASP.com/Advertise.asp ______ 21 Feb ______ - I came across a cool idea offered by Amazon.com today, and I couldn't resist adding it! I added this new rotating banner so you can quickly and easily help support my site... send a $1! http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/pay/TMXVAS3OE44G3 - An article about accepting credit cards is on it's way - VisualASP just bought another advertising slot with my hidden form. It worked! This is "grown-up" stuff... http://CoverYourASP.com/CreditCards.asp ______ 22 Feb ______ - Thanks to Al Margheim for pointing out that my site didn't allow its text to be resized by the browser. I had used the CSS "font-size: 11px" which always remained fixed. Now I have changed it in utils/Init.asp to "font-size: 70%" and you can now resize using View/Text Size... ______ 23 Feb ______ - I added a new feature to my ShowAd() function in utils/Banner.asp. This normally gets called to display the next available banner, but I've now added the ability to send in the name of a banner to display. This means that on certain pages I can always show a relevant banner. A good example is my new credit card article where you will always see a banner for charge.com - my merchant account provider. http://www.charge.com/banners/clicks.php?id=char1206 - A sad day today! I finally relinquished my lead in the ASP Guild's Top Site race. Just goes to show - size does matter! http://www.aspguild.org/group/~12/asp/voteasp2001.asp?a=171 ____________________________________________________________         A   W O R D   F R O M   M Y   S P O N S O R S                 http://www.nsoftware.com/ ____________________________________________________________ IP*Works! V4 ASP Edition includes 30 components, optimized for Active Server Page programming.  The standard IP*Works! components are all included, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, REXEC etc. Also included are new, higher level components such as WebUpload, WebForm, FileMailer, TraceRoute, and more.   The package includes sample ASP pages demonstrating how to access Web Services such as Yahoo Stock Quotes and UPS Address Verification.                 http://www.nsoftware.com/ ____________________________________________________________            R E C O M M E N D   T H E   S I T E !         Please recommend my site to your colleagues            http://CoverYourASP.com/Recommend.asp ____________________________________________________________ One new article this week: "Accepting credit cards on your site - it's too easy!" The hardest part is filling out the forms, but once you've done that the "programming" part is child's play. http://CoverYourASP.com/CreditCards.asp ____________________________________________________________          A   W O R D   F R O M   M Y   S P O N S O R S                   http://www.visualasp.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Download The VisualASP Component Pack v3.1 and start creating fast, lightweight web applications using ASP technology. Try the new TabView Component plus updated TreeView, ListView and MonthView Components. The Component Pack now contains an easy to install (local) examples site showing demonstrations and ASP Script source for each component.                   Download Version 3.1 Now.                   http://www.visualasp.com/ ____________________________________________________________               H E R O   O F   T H E   W E E K ! ____________________________________________________________ William Murray takes the honors this week. He has links to my site from http://mkcomputing.com/ and http://solarisprep.com/ - the latter link is now #3 on my list of best referrers! Amazing for a site that has only been live since the beginning of this month - that's right - the site went live less than 4 weeks ago! Thanks for the support William. Let's have a race to see who can reach 1,000,000 page views a month first... ____________________________________________________________                N E E D   A N   A S P   I S P ?         Use mine. You won't find a nicer bunch of guys.            Cheap, efficient and extremely helpful.                   http://EverPlanet.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Found an interesting fact from the server logs last night - the site source code has been downloaded nearly 7,000 times in the last month. That seems like a lot of downloads to me. Now if everyone that downloaded sent me a dollar with that new amazon button...   http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/pay/TMXVAS3OE44G3 ____________________________________________________________          A   W O R D   F R O M   M Y   S P O N S O R S                 http://www.developersdex.com ____________________________________________________________ Developersdex delivers the world's largest index for Microsoft web technologies.  Search, post, and reply to over 20 of the most popular ASP, SQL, VB and XML Usenet newsgroups. Devdex indexes over 5,000 new resources everyday including those from MSDN, ASP.NET, 15seconds, 4guysfromrolla, ASPToday, XML and ActionJackson.com just to name a few. If it's on the NET it's on Devdex!                 http://www.developersdex.com ____________________________________________________________                      F E E D B A C K             Have something to say? Please share!             http://CoverYourASP.com/Contact.asp ____________________________________________________________ Jonathan Lahijani: In your memberedit.asp file, I was wondering how you were about to use the response.redirect object even though you have already written content to the browser using the Header function.  When I try to do something similar, I get the error:   "The HTTP headers are already written to the client   browser. Any HTTP header modifications must be made   before writing page content." Me: Use Response.Buffer = true; That way you get much faster code, and the ability to redirect because nothing has really been sent yet, just put in the buffer. You can also call Response.Clear to empty the buffer, Response.Flush to flush the buffer (send it out), or Response.End to stop processing the script entirely. ______ Bruce Hakala: I'm currently learning ASP coding and tryign to figure out a way to not only add an delete entires into an access db. That part your examples helped me with greatly..now here's the question: Is there a way to import the db that it creates into a program like Outlook to simplify my newsletter process? How do you do it, once people subscribe to you? Me: Forget outlook - that's client-side. You can send email easily from an asp page - http://CoverYourASP.com/ContactDescr.asp For the newsletter I just put everyone on the bcc and send a single email. Works like a charm! http://CoverYourASP.com/MailToList.asp ______ Mikko: Is this silver and gold membership for real and operational? Your site rocks. Me: Yes and no! It works - you can be a silver or gold member. The problem is that I've never got around to giving them any more content. I tried once but got such a bad response that I moved all that content into the free areas! ______ Rustam: I work in the University computer and there is a firewall installed. So I can't install PWS, neither IIS. Could you advise me how to run my ASP scripts then? Hugs Me: Hugs? Never been sent a hug in an ASP question before! A firewall doesn't stop you running PWS or IIS. They both allow you to run your scripts locally, so you don't even need a network or internet connection. Hence the firewall is irrelevant. But to answer your question though, you cannot run ASP without one of these products. ______ Matt V: I am posting news stories on an ASP page. What I want to do is list only a few lines of the actual story and then have some dots then a "read more" link at the end of the story... Is there any way to limit the amount of text WITHOUT cutting off words in mid stream? I looked at your code, and I am totally confused. Can you give any help or other resources to consult? Me: My code is exactly what you need. I'll explain it in "pseudo-code": var sSeparator = '';// empty separator first time through var nLen = 0; for (;;) {      var sWord = 'something';      nLen += sSeperator.length;      nLen += sWord.length;      if ( nLen > 50 ) // or whatever length is the maximum           break;      // ok to output word      Out ( sSep + sWord );      // change separator to comma      sSep = ','; } // output some dots Out ( '...' ); ______ Andrew Latham: I am setting up an apache server on linux. there is a new asp module and I wondered if you have used it. I am learning php but tons of really cool custom code are in asp. Me: I've used ChiliASP on Apache, but it sounds like this is something different. ChiliASP worked almost exactly the same. I had to change maybe 10 lines of code. Their implementation of CDONTS and ADO is nearly perfect. ______ Colin Creed: Fantastic site - only discovered it a couple of days ago. I was having the problem described in your page CDO1.ASP (Permission Denied when sending a CDONTS email) and found that in my case the correct permissions had been granted to the Anonymous Internet User. Today I resolved the problem thanks to an article I found in the DevGuru KnowledgeBase. I thought might like to add the information to your own article. The content follows. A100199: When Sending Email Through ASP You Get a "Permission Denied" Error. If you receive a "Permission Denied" error when sending email from an ASP page using the CDONTS object, this is probably because the Web application is being run in its own process space. When an application is run in its own process space it does not have access to the IIS metabase, and this prevents the sending of email. To correct this problem, either run the application in-process, or add the IWAM_servername account to the list of operators for the default SMTP service in IIS. Again, congratulations on a great site. Me: Thanks Colin. I think I'll need to investigate it myself before posting that on my site - I don't think everyone would know from that explanation how to even check if their application was running in-process! ______ Al Margheim: Thanks for changing the way your site sets the font size. It's much easier on my eyes. I really appreciate the way you took care of this so quickly.  By contrast, the DEVX site, which has the same problem, didn't bother to respond when I sent them an email about it...even though I pay to access their Premier content. Me: Thanks again for pointing it out - one example of old code that never got revisited! ______ Sunil: I have been visiting your site often and found lot of valuable content. I was looking around for a way of porting all my html pages dynamically due to the ease of maintaining the site. Is there any way using asp where my pages could be generated dynamically and displayed on the screen and i could administer the pages by some admin form? Me: Have you considered opening the html file with FileSystemObject and streaming it out, like I do with my utils/ShowFile.asp? I have used the same technique very successfully to display different content on a site. clicking on your nav bar could just recall the same page with a different query string that contains the name of the file to open and display in the middle. ____________________________________________________________         A   W O R D   F R O M   M Y   S P O N S O R S      http://www.hexillion.com/refer.asp?id=cya7&dest=%2F ____________________________________________________________ Get FREE sample code, online utilities, and articles at Hexillion. Add intelligence to your ASP applications! Look up Whois records, check email addresses, do DNS lookups, find network problems with Ping and Traceroute, and more. http://www.hexillion.com/refer.asp?id=cya7&dest=%2F ____________________________________________________________             H A V E   I   H E L P E D   Y O U ?           If I've helped you, help me help others!             http://CoverYourASP.com/Donate.asp ____________________________________________________________ Spring is here, if not officially at least in spirit. I'm off to my eldest daughter's school carnival this morning, and to look at new houses this afternoon, so I'd better get busy. I'm going to start work on that "other" ASP site soon - CoverYourASP.net - that .NET framework CD is burning a hole in my pocket - and we've got a complete re-design of the site coming next month (are you listening JT?!!) - and of course the "secret weapon" I talk about. But for now, it's breakfast time. Thanks Guys! Speak to you next week. Warmest Regards, James Shaw [email protected] 885 Woodstock Road, Suite 430, #108 Roswell, GA 30075-2247, U.S.A. ____________________________________________________________    V O T E   F O R   Y O U R   F A V O R I T E   S I T E          (or don't, if it's not CoverYourASP.com) http://www.aspguild.org/group/~12/asp/voteasp2001.asp?a=171 ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________                 S U B S C R I P T I O N S           Do you want to subscribe or unsubscribe?             http://CoverYourASP.com/Subscribe.asp ____________________________________________________________