ASP page

example1. <a href="/e-BIZwebSample/CatalogResellersGrid.asp?WebGridActionString=NavBar_1&WebGridInitialized=True"></a>

example2. <a href="/e-BIZwebSample/CatalogResellersGrid.asp></a>

what is the different between the 1. and 2.??
why there is a string after the '?' at the example1 and what it is for?

the difference is that the second example is invalid, because the closing yuotes in your href are missing. Just kidding :-)

the stuff after the "?" are parameters that you can easily access in your ASP using the Request.QueryString method.
as = request.Querystring("WebGridActionString")
' will contain "NavBar_1"

hai lothar....

but why example1 and example2 show different page? normally when we set the link, the page is end with either '.asp' or '.html'..

how am i going to create a web page with a url that same like example1???

thanks again for the info...

^o^..shvonne... glad to see the word 'just kidding'... =)

that's probably because the ASP responds differenly, depending on the parameters passed.
It could look like this:
if request.Querystring ("Web..." ) <> "" then
response.redirect "some other page"
end if
or the ASP could just create a different output depending on the parameters passed.

ic... it wipe out the '???' sign in my head.. thanks a lot...

oh ya, do u know how to show a graph in ASP page base on the data in database? is it just same like what we are doing in visual basic?? if i use VB to generate the graph, can i view it in the browser which didn't support VBscript?

^o^...

there are several ways to create a graph and show it in an ASP
- use third party COM components that allow to create graphs in your ASP based VBScript code.
check out http://www.15seconds.com
- write your own server based COM component in VB and use the graph control
- run Excel on the server and use Excel in your ASP using automation. That's just a theoretical approach. It's probably way too slow.
- use PERL (and GDLib) to create a GIF on the fly.
...

Again, I think you'll find a few solutions on http://www.15seconds.com

thanks again lothar...

there is one more question here... do i need to refresh the page that i currently view everytime in order to get updated info???

unless you apply some auto-refresh mechanism, e.g. META
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="600;url=yourasp.asp">

thanks again... ^o^