Barry S. Stahl - Articles

ArticlesThis section contains articles I have written. Since my current responsibilities don't include authoring, most of the articles are quite old and deal with more mature technologies. I currently have several articles in mind on .NET 2.0 topics and hope to have one or more of them completed and published in the near future.

State Mechanisms in ASP: 3/2/2001 - An overview of the major state mechanisms within Active Server Pages and hints on when each is best to use.
Using XML to Maintain Client State in ASP: 8/23/2000 - The first in a two-part series discussing the use of XML as a storage mechanism for maintaining the state of a web client. The first installment deals with the advantages of using XML to maintain state and builds the VB COM object.
Web Based Database Queries: 8/20/2000 - Steps the user through the process of creating an ASP based query form for use in website administration.
Using XML to Maintain Client State - Part II: 9/6/2000 - The second in a two-part series discussing the use of XML as a storage mechanism for maintaining the state of a web client. This second part deals with using the object created in part 1 from within ASP and compares the performance.