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<DIV>Paul,</DIV>
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<DIV>There are several issues to consider before you take this step:</DIV>
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<DIV>1. Are you the only one who will be doing web development for your
company?</DIV>
<DIV>2. Are there existing web sites in ASP?</DIV>
<DIV>3. Are you going to try to integrate your web logon with your network
ID's?</DIV>
<DIV>4. Is MS Site Server available to you?</DIV>
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<DIV>My personal suggestion would be that you skip ASP and go to ASP.NET.
There are a number of compelling reasons for this, but ultimately it depends on
what your company will support.</DIV>
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<DIV>As far as ASP classic books, my favorites were the WROX ASP series.
You can skip Beginning ASP; go straight to Professional ASP. I believe
there was also an ASP databases book in the series.</DIV>
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<DIV>Before you but the books try <A
href="http://www.4guysfromrolla.com">www.4guysfromrolla.com</A> - the best ASP
site on the web. Search their site for Authentication or Authorization to
find possible answers to your specific problem.</DIV>
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<DIV>Gary Ray - Application Developer<BR>Workforce Information Systems R &
D<BR>E-Mail <A href="mailto:gray@utah.gov">gray@utah.gov</A><BR><BR>>>>
paul.hartland@fsmail.net 10/13/03 07:21AM >>><BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">To all,<?xml:namespace prefix = o
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">I would like to start getting into
ASP, I have done very little HTML so really don’t know where to start.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are going to transfer our main
booking database to SQL Server 7.0, and will be using this as a back-end to an
Intranet/Internet page.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What I am
really after is a way to create a logon page that grants access via a user
table, I think if someone could give me some sample code to do this (i.e.
designing the logon page and connecting to the database to check the logins) I
may be able to get a better understanding before we go to
far.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Also does anyone know any good
books for this, I am currently programming in VB/VBA on XP machines with a
Windows 2000 server.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paul Hartland<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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