Main Developers Only White Papers

VBITS '97—New York, NY—June 23-25

Day Two Keynote
New Tools and Their Impact on Both n-tier Client/Server and its Intersection with Intranets

The hype surrounding internet/intranet development shows no sign of slowing and a slew of new development tools from Microsoft and others confronts developers with even more new skills to at least understand and perhaps master.

Should all the hype and all the tools be taken to mean conventional client/server is dead? We don't think so! Traditional client/server applications provide a wealth of functionality that web applications were
never meant to provide. On the other hand, web applications provide an
interface that is becoming intuitive to an ever-growing population of users.

We think the best approach is to craft "ambidextrous" applications -- wherein conventional Windows- and Browser-based front-ends leverage the same business object automation servers and databases in order to serve both communities of users.

Ambidextrous apps can be written from scratch, but, more importantly, can be created from existing Windows-based client/server applications. We'll start with a look at the tools that help you write perform this task, including Microsoft Visual Interdev, Internet Information Server 3.0 with Active Server Pages, Microsoft Transaction Server and, of course, Visual Basic. We'll then take you through a migration of a *real* 3-tier client/server VB/SQL Server application to the 4-tier IIS/Active Server Pages platform.

Come see why the new development tools extend the reach and power of your existing development skills, rather than threaten them with obsolescence.
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ActiveX Document Applications for the Internet

For Visual Basic developers who want to migrate their existing applications and expertise to the Internet, Visual Basic 5.0 created ActiveX documents provide the smoothest and easiest transition. In this session you'll learn how to design, create, debug, and deploy full blown Visual Basic applications that run in Internet Explorer.
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Active Intranet Design

This workshop covers everything developers need to know about Internet/Intranet applications development. Targeted at experienced traditional developers who now need to use Web-related technologies to build distributed applications, attendees will quickly gain an understanding of how these technologies work, how they relate to each other, and what they must do to develop and deploy successful Internet/Intranet applications. Overview Technology overview Network application architecture Key Technologies Network plumbing & protocols Active clients Active servers Publishing data on the Web Development tools and toolkits Users, Security, DCOM Application Development Application Design: maintaining state, scaling, and flexibility Integrating with existing client and server-side applications Code and object distribution and control.
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