Ever spend hours looking for that secret solution to a web site or web programming problem or just general tech info?  You know someone else must have a solution, but just reading all the archives, visiting bulletin boards, expert sites, and search the web is a full-time job to itself.  Well, as we uncover the tips that we consider "above and beyond" the usual stuff, we post them here for everyone.

Viewing full E-mail headers - To analyze spam, you must be able to see the real E-Mail headers that indentify the source of the message.  This guide shows how to do that with most popular E-Mail software packages.

Capture MySQL data from the Web with Access - Shows how to convert a standard MySQL data dump and load the table data into an Access database.  The cool thing is rather than a direct screen-scrape, shows how to use the Browser ActiveX control inside an Access data form to let Access and IE handle all the gory details for you.

CONNECTION STRINGS - ASP, dot NET, VB connection strings for both DSN and DSN-less database/data file programming.

Connection String Builder - Interactive program that prompts you for your database info and then builds a connection string for you.

Sending Email Via an External SMTP Server Using CDO - Explains how to explicitly specify desired SMTP server and how to use CDO from scripts