Developing Web Applications
This guide provides an overview of Web application design and introduces more advanced topics that help you fine-tune your Web applications using the available Web-oriented technologies and IIS features.
This section contains:
- Web Application Architecture: Illustrates the evolution of distributed applications from early client/server architecture to the currently popular n-tier architecture. Describes the Microsoft services involved in distributed applications, focusing on the role of IIS.
- Development Technologies: Reviews some of the Web technologies that make up Windows Distributed interNet Applications (Windows DNA), such as XML and Dynamic HTML.
- Security Considerations for IIS Applications: Introduces the issues Web developers face when accessing and providing secure data.
- Design Decisions: Describes several key issues you should consider in designing web applications.
- Accessing Data with ASP: Introduces data access from a Web page with Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).
- Using COM+ Services for Processing Transactions: Outlines how IIS and Component Services work together to provide Web-based transactions.
- Developing Scalable Web Applications: Describes the impact that Web application design decisions can have on server performance.