Having reached Chapter 12 of BEGINNING ACTIVE SERVER PAGES 3.0 I was 

surprised to learn that I need MS Access or Visual Studio to proceed 

further. These were not listed as requirements in the Introduction (p. 4 

"What Do I Need to Use this Book?"



Can I still do the exercises with another ODBC source, such as Lotus 

Approach or FileMaker (which I all ready have on my system)? If so, how?

You can use any ODBC source.  Search the archive here (http://p2p.wrox.com

the search box is at the top of the page, enter a list name to limit the

search to that list.) and you might well find an example for Filemaker or

Approach.  There are some useful links in the ASP FAQ at 

http://p2p.wrox.com/asp/faq.asp .



Stephen



> Having reached Chapter 12 of BEGINNING ACTIVE SERVER PAGES 3.0 I was 

> surprised to learn that I need MS Access or Visual Studio to proceed 

> further. These were not listed as requirements in the Introduction (p. 4 

> "What Do I Need to Use this Book?"

> 

> Can I still do the exercises with another ODBC source, such as Lotus 

> Approach or FileMaker (which I all ready have on my system)? If so, how?

> 

If you search for Lotus Approach or FileMaker on this site you get only a 

few hits yielding no useful information about my question.