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ahh ok, you should look into the technologies which Microsoft and others have provided for automatic updating of apps. e.g. In MSN Messenger it polls a website to see if there are any EXE updates, if there is then it alerts you, downloads the update and installs it.
I *think* the MS tech is called BITS.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Brian Welsch wrote:
"blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans.
Crikey! ain't life grand?
Einstein says...
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Paul Watson wrote:
I *think* the MS tech is called BITS.
Good thinking! And here's the instructions[^] for implementing it. It only works on XP, and requires VS.Net to develop custom apps using it, but it's freely available.
"Another day done - All targets met; all systems fully operational; all customers satisfied; all staff keen and well motivated; all pigs fed and ready to fly" - Jennie A.
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I have a very small question (a very big question for me though) about Server Side VBScript in ASP pages.
To fetch information from a HTML input textfield like the
( in a VBScript line, will return the error "Object required" (which clearly indicates my existing limitations in VBScript).
What is the VBScript syntax for this?
(there are tons of good java examples out there, but with VBScript...) 
Best regards,
Emelian
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Given a form:
<FORM NAME=Form1 ACTION="MyScript.asp" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT NAME=Test TYPE="TEXT">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" Value="Submit">
</FORM>
to retrieve the value typed into the textbox after pressing the Submit button use
<%
strTestInfo = Request.Form("Test")
%>
in the page named MyScript.asp.
[EDIT]
An excellent book, "Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0" from Wrox Press is still available, though Wrox went belly up before I could purchase its Advanced volume. It presents the subject very clearly and uses VBScript throughout - it's been an invaluable aid to me.
[/EDIT]
"Your village called - <BR>They're missing their idiot."
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Thanks for your help, Roger! 
I read some time ago about the "Request.Form(), but I'll guess the beers I had between now and then, probably wiped it all out from my mind. 
Your suggestion doesn't work for me, because I'm using the "onClick" to call a small script before posting to the next page. I need to read the "Value" from the very same page that it is entered on. 
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In a page, it is possible to have several forms which actually can contain the same names of the "
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I realised that using Request.Form(), will only fetch data from a post on a previous page (and from that particular posted form). That sorts out the later part in my last reply.
And about fetching values in "input text fields" on the current page by using serverside scripts, probably is a question of travelling between two parallel universes (server-side & client-side).
But the question remains... Is it possible to make the server-side script able to fetch values on an existing page before executing a post to the next page? 
Regards,
Emelian
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Emelian wrote:
Is it possible to make the serverside script to fetch values on an existing page before executing a post to the next page?
Probably, but I haven't had a need for it yet. Stick around - someone smarter than me is bound to show up.
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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Solved the problem by forcing the page to post the data into same page, when I press the "Submit" -button. But not a very nice way to solve a simple data handling, is it? 
But the challange is still on, to find a solution that does it without making a "post". 
Any suggestion or contribution is most welcome!
Regards,
Emelian 
BTW... Thanks Roger, for spending your time and effort on this! ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Create a file from inside ASP page ?
My current code
Dim fso
Dim streamfile
Set fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set streamfile = fso.CreateTextFile("blahblah.asp",True)
But there is no file created at all..
Anyone can help ?
"Courage choose who will follow, Fate choose who will lead" - Lord Gunner, Septerra Core
"Press any key to continue, where's the ANY key ?" - Homer Simpsons
Drinking gives me amazing powers of insight. I can solve all the worlds problems when drunk, but can never remember the solutions in the morning. - Michael P Butler to Paul Watson on 12/08/03
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When you specify the file to create you have to specify the full path, otherwise the default directory will be used, which is probably in some temp directory somewhere. Do it like this:
Set streamfile = fso.CreateTextFile(server.mappath("blahblah.asp"),True)
NATHAN RIDLEY
Web Application Developer
email: nathan @ netlab.com.au
[remove the spaces before and after the @ symbol]
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Yes.. that's what I forget, Server.MapPath
Many thanks
"Courage choose who will follow, Fate choose who will lead" - Lord Gunner, Septerra Core
"Press any key to continue, where's the ANY key ?" - Homer Simpsons
Drinking gives me amazing powers of insight. I can solve all the worlds problems when drunk, but can never remember the solutions in the morning. - Michael P Butler to Paul Watson on 12/08/03
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I have seen websites where all the pages have the suffix
.asp and I have seen websites where all the pages have
the suffix .htm. Is there a difference between the two
files?
What really bothers me is I have a site where everything
is .asp and when I send this robot to crawl the site and
find all links, it only finds the first page. I want
google and other search engines to crawl all the pages
(and subpages of the site) and the .asp suffix seems to
hinder it.
Am I just imagining this or is something really different
between those suffixes?
Please, any response any one can give me will be greatly
appreciated.
Sincerely,
Danielle (an overworked graduate student)
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The suffix is a clue as to what inline scripting language the site uses (e.g. .asp, .php, .shtml, etc.), but is by no means definitive (the web server can be configured map any suffix to any handler). .htm is usually just plain HTML, but on a platform with historical roots to three-character file extensions (e.g., Windows).
I doubt the .asp extension is hindering the web crawler, unless it is poorly designed. However, there are lots of reasons why a web crawler for a search engine (such as Google) may not completely cover your site. Are all of your internal links of the form "blah.asp?something"? If so, the crawler is probably avoiding following the link since it suggests that the link is dynamic and the bot designers don't want the bot to waste server resources by triggerring a potentially intensive query. Also, a robots.txt file may be instructing the bot to specifically ignore certain sections.
- Mike
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the extension tells the server what type of processing it must do to the file before it sends it to your browser. HTML and HTM files require no server-side processing and are simply sent as-they-are to your browser. ASP files use the VBScript or JScript server-side scripting language, and the server will look through these files for any script code and process it first before sending the resultant HTML to your browser. PHP files are the same idea, but use a different language.
Search engines are not a straight-forward technology. There are entire business devoted to optimising people's sites to please the search engines. What have you used to build the site? Search engines can't navigate flash files in general, and if you use a cryptic method to link to your subpages they may also have trouble. Do you use frames? These can cause problems also. What's the URL of your website? If we can have a look, you might get some better help.
NATHAN RIDLEY
Web Application Developer
email: nathan @ netlab.com.au
[remove the spaces before and after the @ symbol]
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Hi there!
I'm most certain this topic has been discussed previously hundreds of times, yet I have a little problem with this which probably deserves a new thread:
I built a few days ago a regular expression email verification (actually copy-pasted it from some place I can't remember now :-P) to be used to filter email input in a web-page I'm working on.
Yesterday my boss called very angry because one of his clients wasn't able to enter his email. Obviously the client's email was a valid one and my function was rejecting it, so I have to correcti it. The problem was my regexp wasn't allowing the address to start with a digit (doh!):
^[a-zA-Z][\w\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]@[a-zA-Z0-9][\w\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\.]*[a-zA-Z]$
Ok, solving this is most easy, but my boss was so damn angry, he told me to be absolutely sure all valid email addresses will be accepted when I fix it... so I made my homework... I ran into RFC2821 and RFC821 to check out SMTP rules, and found something weird:
According to RFC821 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc821.html), the syntax for the email address is as follows (check the original RFC821 for a complete explanation, I'm filtering out a lot of stuff here):
<mailbox> ::= <local-part> "@" <domain>
<local-part> ::= <dot-string> | <quoted-string>
<dot-string> ::= <string> | <string> "." <dot-string>
<string> ::= <char> | <char> <string>
<char> ::= <c> | "\" <x>
<c> ::= any one of the 128 ASCII characters, but not any <special> or <SP>
<x> ::= any one of the 128 ASCII characters (no exceptions)
<SP> ::= the space character (ASCII code 32)
<special> ::= "<" | ">" | "(" | ")" | "[" | "]" | "\" | "." | "," | ";" | ":" | "@" """ | the control characters (ASCII codes 0 through 31 inclusive and 127)
The logic to understand the previous is rather simple: <mailbox> is composed of <local-part> AND "@" AND <domain>. Then <local-part> is composed of <dot-string> OR <quoted-string>, and so on. I left <quoted-string> and <domain> out of this because the quoted-string is a more complex notation for the same thing, and domain suffers of the same problem I'll explain now:
If you check the ASCII table, and filter out the INVALID characters according to the previous rules (not taking in count that quoting a char with backslash -i.e. \% - allows to enter ANY character), the valid set of characters for an email address is (values in parenthesis are ASCII codes):
letters: a - z AND A - Z
digits : 0 - 9
extras : ! (33), # (35), $ (36), % (37), & (38), ' (39), * (42), + (43), - (45), / (47), = (61), ? (63), \ (92), ^ (94), _ (95), { (123), | (124), } (125), ~ (126)
Now let's review this: letters, no problem... digits, no problem... but hey!!... what happened with the extra symbols?? I'm not complaining about 45, 95 (which are very common in email addresses) but the remaining are ALSO VALID?? Could this be possible?
Now, I can build a regexp to accept all this "extra" symbols, but my question here is ARE THEY ACTUALLY VALID? most of all ARE THEY VALID ANYWHERE IN THE SYNTAX?
I hope someone has the patience to read all this and give any comments about this.
Bundy
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I think yes, they are allowed. Just as a sample, Lotus Notes often generates e-mails using:
! (33), # (35), $ (36), % (37), & (38), / (47)
Although I never saw the others, what's the problem with this? If it's allowed by the RFC, then it should be only a matter of using them on your regex.
BTW, do you know about RegexLib.com? You have a good probability of finding the regex you need there.
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.
-- Bruce Schneier
By the way, dog_spawn isn't a nickname - it is my name with an underscore instead of a space. -- dog_spawn
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Jeff Friedl provides exactly such a regex conforming to RFC821 in his book, Mastering Regular Expressions, and the regex can be found here:
http://public.yahoo.com/~jfriedl/regex/code.html[^]
There is an expanded version of the regex in the Email::Valid Perl module.
- Mike
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Thanks a lot guys!! that really helped a lot (although the regexp found at that url was built in perl and I'm working with asp, but I can do it myself anyway  ).
I was most worried about this because some of those simbols are often used when some people with too much time on their hands try to hack a web by cross-scripting, so those simbols are considered somewhat "harmful", but with the special characters out of question ("<" ">" "\") not much harm can be done.
Thanks again!!
Bundy
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Hi, first of all, thanx for reading my message.
I need an application like xpwebbuttons to develop a very impressive and beautiful buttons with xp-like and mac-like. I know how to design on Photoshop but I don't like my results at all. Please if anyone knows a program like xpwebbuttons and for free...
Thanks in advance.
Written by: Rafael Fernández López.
void life ( bool me, bool her )
{
if ( her )
{
me = true ;
}
else
{
me = false ;
}
}
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Hi,
I've created a little webservice.
I want to query, update and delete datas from 2 tables
So I've created a SQLConnection and a SQLDataAdapter.
The problem is with the SQLDataAdapter. I don't know how to tell .Net that the 2 tables are linked and must work togheter.
I've tried to made this with the "Configure Data Adapter Wizard" but it doesn't work.
Any1 know good idea to help me ?
regards
Sybux
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Hi ,
If you want to link 2 tables you can use dataset for that.
In the dataset itself you will have to define that relationship .
something like this
custDS.Relations.Add("CustOrders",
custDS.Tables["Customers"].Columns["CustID"],
custDS.Tables["Orders"].Columns["CustID"]);
I hope you are asking about this only.
thanks
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Hi all,
Iam facing a problem while populating data into Microsoft tree view control(ActiveX control) in ASP. Iam able to populate the data but all the data is visible as parent node. Can anyone help me out of this situation. Its very urgent.
Thanks in advance.
The code iam using is as follows
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sub treeview_Load()
set oList = document.treeview1
Dim nodX
Set nodX = oList.Nodes.Add(, , "dad", "Mike") ' A first sibling.
Set nodX = oList.Nodes.Add(, , "mom", "Carol")
Set nodX = oList.Nodes.Add(, , , "Alice")
' Marsha is the FirstSibling.
Set nodX = oList1.Nodes.Add("mom", tvwChild, , "Marsha")
Set nodX = oList1.Nodes.Add("mom", tvwChild, , "Jan")
Set nodX = oList1.Nodes.Add("mom", tvwChild, , "Cindy")
nodX.EnsureVisible ' Show all nodes.
' Greg is the FirstSibling.
Set nodX = oList1.Nodes.Add("dad", tvwChild, , "Greg")
Set nodX = oList1.Nodes.Add("dad", tvwChild, , "Peter")
Set nodX = oList1.Nodes.Add("dad", tvwChild, , "Bobby")
nodX.EnsureVisible ' Show all nodes.
end sub
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Hey guys, what's up? Just set up my remote server (using semi-isolated development mode) for web projects (namely C# ASP.NET projects), and found the info about updating to FPSE 2002.
I didn't think I -needed- FPSE, except that I don't want to run IIS on my development PC (Win2kPro). So I'm using my test server (Win2kServer) as a remote web server. Wound up with a ton of error messages (well, actually, only two), and found the answer in Microsoft KB # 320451. So apparently I need FPSE, because I really don't want IIS locally.
Anyway- should I upgrade the test server to FPSE 2002? Anyone done this? Any problems with it?
Or... like I said, I really don't want IIS running locally. But- I much rather like the idea of talking to my test server via a file share (wwwroot$). Would the ability to use a file share work if I installed IIS locally- but stopped the "World Wide Web Publishing Service" and the "IIS Admin Service"? That way, IIS gets installed on my client computer, but I'm wondering if ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces) would still work. The KB says it's integrated with IIS, but I'm not sure how. Did anybody try this? Or, /could/ anybody try this for me? I just tried to create a C# ASP.NET web application, and wound up with both of the error messages that KB #320451 talks about.
Oh, let me link up KB 320451 - click here for the article!
Thanks!!
-Thomas
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ThomasH1 wrote:
upgrade the test server to FPSE 2002? Anyone done this? Any problems with it
I'm running Win2K Server and I tried using the latest 2002 version of FP Extensions on IIS. It killed my server.
"Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."
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Roger, thanks for the info!! I'll forget about FPSE 2002!
Do you use FrontPage to create your web projects? Just wondering if you know anything about my question regarding IIS (installing it locally but keeping the services and web page stopped, just to get the Active Directory Service Interfaces component installed.).
Thanks!
-Thomas
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