Tutorials (mostly) on using Expression with Databases

These tutorials are provided free for your use as a learning aid. They have not been extensively tested, and are not guaranteed to be optimum solutions or, for that matter, to even be 100% correct. There may be better solutions. HomePage Doctor assumes no liability for your use of the material here. This material is intended for educational purposes only.

These tutorials are provided to ease the pain for users migrating from FrontPage to Expression. Our goal here is to show you how to accomplish all the things (and more) with Expression and its ASP.NET controls that you could easily do with databases using the Wizards and Bots of FrontPage.

We claim no originality in these tutorials, they have been developed from a combination of personal book study and learning from others on the newsgroup "microsoft.public.expression.webdesigner".  Special thanks to the famous SpiderWebWoman  who first explained to us how to do Tutorial #8 and introduced us to the use of the {0} placeholder

These tutorials are intended to be easy for you to print from your browser, and are ideal for those who like following along step-by-step from a book or printed material that you can annotate.

1.  Sending form input to a database

2.  Displaying results from a database

3.  Doing with Expression what the FrontPage DRW's did

4.  Database results from drop-down lists

5.  Making hyperlink fields active in database results

6. Linking multiple pictures to a GridView Results selection

7. Sending ASP.NET form-submitted data to an email.

8.  Formatting a GridView column to show currency

9.  Making email addresses in a GridView functional 

10. Formatting a GridView Date to show only date, not time.

11. Setting up a multi-table relational database for use with asp.net

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