Description:
Written with both programmers and managers in mind, Windows 2000 Web Applications Developer's Guide tours the technologies, tools, and APIs required for creating state-of-the-art Web applications on the Windows platform. Filled with design tips and containing a good introduction to a half-dozen important APIs required to master Web programming, this book gives you what you need to know for successful multitiered development. Instead of just repeating the "official" word from Microsoft, this book looks closely at the strengths and weaknesses of its platform. (For example, Yager argues that Windows NT 4.0 might be all you need. He also chooses to use JavaScript--instead of VBScript--for ASP development, and argues against relying too much on Visual InterDev's Design-Time Controls.) This independently minded perspective makes this text a worthy guide to building Web applications that work on all major browsers. The book covers all the basic tools and APIs available in Windows for server-side development, including HTML, XML, JavaScript, COM+, and basic ASP and ADO programming. A standout here is the author's excellent suggestions for designing user interfaces (UIs) for browser-based clients. (Here, Yager walks through "traditional" stand-alone clients and shows how to implement UI features, such as menus and dialog boxes, within a browser.) Instead of complete programs, short code excerpts are used here. This book's introductions to XML and JavaScript are notably clear. Mixing a high-level perspective on successful Web application design with a full tour of the basic APIs that are needed to get started, this title has something for both developers and managers who are faced with architecting Web solutions for the Windows platform. --Richard Dragan Topics covered: Overview of Web applications in Windows 2000, Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0, virtual directories and sites, planning for Web applications, three-tier and n-tier architectures, workstations for Web developers, staging and production servers, designing user interfaces for traditional clients and Web applications, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, database tutorial quick-start, introduction to Visual InterDev (VI) 6.0, VI design-time controls (DTCs), basic HTML tutorial, forms, cascading style sheets (CSS), JavaScript, the Document Object Model (DOM), Dynamic HTML (DHTML), XML and XSL, COM and COM+, ASP tutorial with JavaScript, SQL syntax primer, ADO basics, using transactions and events in COM+, message queuing and queued components, quick reference for JavaScript, HTML, DOM and ASP.
| 
