OK, so I recently created this code with VBS, but it would work with ASP as well. Basically, you need to place the script in a folder where it can get write permissions to create the XML file. Then you'll connect to the Access database like you would normally. Although to be perfectly honest, you […]

Tracking a visitor's geographical location (ie. country, region, city, latitude, longitude, ZIP code, ISP and domain name) used to be a cool trick. Now it is an integral part of many websites, enabling them to identify the locations from where they're getting the maximum traffic; and tune your webpages accordingly. It also enables you to […]

So you've retrieved the visitor's IP address. If you're just logging or tracing it, that's all you need to do. However, if you want to match it to an IP location database, you can't search by the IP in the IPV4 format. It needs to be converted to its IP number equivalent (it is just […]

Every visitor to your site or web application has an IP address. It is quite handy to be able to get that address. It can be used for security logging, or perhaps tracing. It can also be used to determine where they are in the world, or at least where their ISP is.
The difficulty […]

I used to work on a web application that tracked hardware inventory. I was requested to build a feature into the report page to be able to export to Excel (.xls) format.
Initially I looked into the code to instantiate a new spreadsheet object, and build the rows and cells one by one programatically. But […]