8.7. Further Reading

With the explosive growth in the popularity of Active Server Pages, an entire component-development industry has arisen. This industry is a testament to ASP's ability to quickly and easily create powerful, dynamic web sites. The links below are to lists of available third-party components and numerous third-party vendors. If you need a specific tool for your web site, say a threaded message board system, check out these lists and vendors to quickly find a complete third-party COM object that fits your needs.

• For a list of available third-party ASP COM components, check out the component list on ASPAlliance.com: http://www.aspalliance.com/components/.

• If you are looking for an ASP e-commerce component, look no further than iisCart: http://www.iiscart2000.com.

• Doug Dean Consulting builds a number of COM objects that can be used in an ASP web site. If you are in the market for a threaded forum, calendar, or web-based memo system, check out: http://www.dougdean.com.

• ASPdb is a component designed to aid in publishing database information on the Web. Easily display table information in a number of different formats and styles: http://www.aspdb.com/.

• Looking to add a chat system to your site? Why write your own when you can use ASPChat? It's available from ASPHelp.com at http://www.asphelp.com/ASPChat/ ?

• Offer your users the option to spellcheck their inputs; check out http://www.xde.net/spellchecker/.

• While the FileSystemObject was developed to work exclusively with text files, it can be used to access binary files as well. Check out http://www.pstruh.cz/help/ScptUtl/library.htm to learn how to upload files using just ASP code and the FileSystemObject!