Just a quick way to write out an alphabetical list. Useful for menu systems.

If you're using passwords of any type on your site, it is best to keep them random. That way they cannot be easily guessed at by intruders.

First, it's good to know a little about ASCII characters. Every character your keyboard can type is actually represented by a number. So the letter A is represented by 65. The letter Z is represented by 90. So all you need to do is generate a series of random numbers, each number between 65 and 90. That would give you a way to find the equivalent letters.

If you want to include numbers too, those are found between spots 48 and 57. I wouldn't use the spots between 57 and 65 - those are odd characters like colons.




So let's say you want to create a 7 character password that contains a random assortment of letters and numbers. You could do something like this:

This code will show you how to encrypt user passwords with md5 algorithm and how to start using encrypted passwords if you already have users' database ready. The md5.asp you can download from my site http://www.webcheatsheet.com/asp/md5_encrypt_passwords.php

This script allows the creation of an Outlook Distribution List from a text file. This is handy for creating a quick email distribution list without having to manually add each contact to the list.

I have used it only a couple times, but was born out of a need from a listserv member - they use it almost daily for emailing contacts pulled from a terminal-windowed application and saved as standard output.

Maybe you'll find this useful, maybe not, but thought I'd share it...

I wrote this script to ease installation of LDIF files into ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode). Some .NET portal vendors choose a hybrid of SQL and ADAM for their applications, ours did just that. When developing portlets, they must be registered in ADAM to be made available to the portal.

In the course or portlet development it was a pain to locate the directory the LDIF file (description file) lived and then to execute the LDIF installer - so I made it easy - a generic LDIF installer script. It uses the common OpenDialog to allow for searching for the file and then installing it once the file is selected - a real time-saver.

I will have more AD type goodies for you soon...(LDIFs are also used for creating or manipulating User and Computer accounts in AD)

Convert a decimal symbol to a binary

Displays the hex value for an HTML color given the decimal RGB values. Uses Internet Explorer to show the hex value in the color itself.

A painfully simple method of viewing the contents of an ASP script via an ASP script.

Converts Hex values to Decimal, useful for reading & converting values from the registry.

If you're asking your users to submit a password of 6-12 characters, you want to make sure it is done properly and without any special characters which could compromise your system.

To do this, you would want to use regular expressions