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Hi, all of you who have used ASP may have encountered situations where you require to write a text output to the screen. It can be easily done by using Response.Write("Hello world"); However, if you wish to append some more text to a newline, it would not work in the following ways. Response.Write("Hello world \n"); Response.Write("Good day."); The output of the above lines would be Hello world Good day. and NOT Hello world Good day. In order to overcome this, you can very simple place an html break tag inside the code. Response.Write("Hello world"); Response.Write("<br/>"); Response.Write("Good day."); The output would be the following. Hello world Good day. Cheers !!!

Hi, all of you must have noticed that when you visit a website with your browser, the image on the left of the addressbar changes. First of all lets define its correct term. It is known as the 'favIcon'. In this post, I wish to demonstrate how to add such a favicon to your website. To try this out, you would need a web server such as IIS, Apache or Tomcat. I'm using WAMP's Apache server for the demonstration. First of all, you'll need an image of dimension 16x16. You can use windows paint to do this. Save it in Windows 16 colors. If you need to do this quickly, you can use the following website , which will generate a favicon from a given image. Save the image as favicon.ico. Now, copy and paste this on your web server root directory of the application. The folder structure of WAMP is based in a way such that the web applications need to be deployed in the folder named "www". (The complete path for this is "C:\wamp\www") Now, create a separate f