Microsoft® BackOffice®, built on Microsoft® Windows NT® Server, is an integrated platform for building business solutions for your company's network, intranet, and the Internet. BackOffice offers developers a consistent development environment for the desktop, the server, and the Internet, allowing you to leverage what you already know to quickly build powerful solutions.
This section presents relevant design and programming issues to consider during the development of a server or client application that will interact with the BackOffice components. Additionally, this section introduces many programming concepts and techniques that are fundamental to developing any application that requires optimum performance and maximum functionality.