ASP: some general tips

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The new year has just began, and you're probably still trying to get things working after your well earned holidays. Don't worry, it won't be a too much complicated article: just a few tips not to forget when programming in ASP.

We will examine tips in no particular order, just as they poured in my mind while I was thinking about how some basic things are easily overlooked while programming. That could happen because we aren't aware of them or just because we might be lazy enough to forget about them.

Ok, take a deep breath and let's start.

ASP: some simple advices to obtain well organized pages

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When coding a new ASP page, there are some simple things to keep in mind. While our creativity shouldn't be blocked, there are some rules that - if followed - might increase the performance of our newly created page. Some of these ideas are just general advices that can be useful. Others are more imperative, and should be carefully considered almost as laws.
Anyway, let's see them one by one and then you can comment, say what you think and maybe add some other ideas that I might have forgotten.

ASP: Scripting.FileSystemObject OpenTextFile vs Server-Side Include

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In this short post I would like to compare two ways of including a file in an asp page. As you may be all aware, we can include a file into a page using a server-side include like:

<!--#include virtual="/example.txt" -->

In the page containing the above code, all the content of the txt file will be displayed.