Product Reviews & Recommendations
Bare-bones, "no bells & whistles" ASP code generator!
ASP HELPER
I've been an enthusiastic user of an excellent code generator, but I got frustrated with it sometimes because as the product becomes more sophisiticated, the ASP code that it creates become more complicated and difficult to understand. They cause ASP errors that I have to spend time tracking down, but that are difficult to track down because I am only an intermediate coder, not a guru.
Sometimes, all we want and need is something VERY simple!
That was what I was thinking when I wrote the Database Interface Generator script.
However, wanted something to run on my desktop, so I went looking for a generator program and tried a bunch of them. The first thing I looked at was the price; would I be able to justify buying the program if I liked it? Usually, they were priced too high for me.
Secondly, I considered ease of use, and thirdly, whether the generated code was SIMPLE.
When the code is simple, small, and light, it is so much easier to modify it and to integrate it into a site's design.
The product is ASP HELPER and you can download it from http://www.a2zhelp.com/asphelper/ . It downloads as a zip file and when unzipped, there is an exe that installs the program.
Another program I like is actually an ASP script that you run on your server: BuildApp
When I was an ASP newbie, I tried BuildApp and liked it but didn't know how to select which fields it would output. Here are a couple of tips.
One way to limit the output to only the fields you select is to designate those fields in your SQL statement:
"Select PUBLISH_DATE, ARCHIVE_DATE from NEWS"
Another way is to edit the resulting page, substituting the
record set field value for the generic 'x.value' : objRS("NEWS_SUB")
