Sample and Demo Applications


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Sample and Demo Applications

Microsoft® Remote Data Service includes useful sample and demo applications that are valuable learning tools. Throughout the documentation, you'll find sample code and applications that illustrate programming techniques. You can copy any part of them into your own applications and modify them as necessary.
Remote Data Service provides the following sample applications that demonstrate how to use this technology to build intranet and Internet applications. These are provided in .ASP format for ease in running the samples (your host server name is automatically provided), but can easily be modified to run as HTML pages.

Sample application

Description

Address Book
A simple company directory application.
For detailed information about this application, see the Address Book Sample Application.

ADCTest
A simple .asp file that you can use to validate your Remote Data Service installation. See the Tutorials for information on how to create a simple application like this.

Query Builder
An application that shows you how to access the remote data sources available through the host Web server.

Selector
Shows how to implement various Remote Data Service application configurations on the client, middle, and data source tiers. You will see how to use a VBScript Web page or Visual Basic client application on the client tier, the RDSServer.DataFactory or custom business object on the middle tier, or a Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Access database on the data source tier.

Note Companies, names, and data used in examples are fictitious unless otherwise noted.
Modifying the Samples to Run in HTML format

To modify the samples to run as HTML pages perform the following steps:
Open the .ASP file in a text editor, such as Notepad.
Search for the following string:
<%=Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")%>
Replace it with the name of your Web server.
Save the file with an .HTM extension.
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Sample application	Description
Address Book	A simple company directory application. For detailed information about this application, see the Address Book Sample Application.
ADCTest	A simple .asp file that you can use to validate your Remote Data Service installation. See the Tutorials for information on how to create a simple application like this.
Query Builder	An application that shows you how to access the remote data sources available through the host Web server.
Selector	Shows how to implement various Remote Data Service application configurations on the client, middle, and data source tiers. You will see how to use a VBScript Web page or Visual Basic client application on the client tier, the RDSServer.DataFactory or custom business object on the middle tier, or a Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Access database on the data source tier.