The following tables list the Microsoft products, tools, and technologies used to build the applications discussed in the BackOffice® Developer's Guide (BDG). The two scenarios listed, the Corporate Media Library (CML) application and the combined CML/LitCrit application, are thoroughly discussed in the BDG's second installment.
In addition to the BDG's "scenarios" (its main sample applications), the design of certain other applications is also described briefly. The BDG refers to these applications as "solutions," and you can find more information on them in Technologies and Products in BDG Solutions.
Note The BackOffice Developer's Guide team used SQL Server™ 7.0 in combination with BackOffice Server 4.0 components to install and develop the CML and CML/LitCrit applications. However, you can also use BackOffice Server 4.5, which includes SQL Server 7.0, as well as any future versions of the products referenced in the BDG to develop these applications.
The following table provides links, wherever possible, to relevant topics in BDG scenarios.
Products and Technologies in BDG Scenarios
| BackOffice Server 4.0 products | Scenario 1: Corporate Media Library (CML) |
Scenario 2: CML plus LitCrit Outlook application |
Scenario 3:
Performance Tracking (PT) Admin application |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exchange Server 5.5 | Yes. See Microsoft Exchange and the CML. | Yes. See Using Exchange Server in the CML/LitCrit Application, Using CDO in the CML/LitCrit Application, and About the Outlook HTML Form Converter. | No. |
| SNA Server 4.0 | No | No | No. |
| SQL Server™ 6.5 | Yes (version 7.0). See SQL Server and the CML. | Yes (version 7.0). See SQL Server and the CML and Data Elements and Data Stores. | Yes. See Creating the Eval SQL Server Database. |
| Systems Management Server 1.2 | No | No | No. |
| Windows NT® and Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack | |||
| Windows NT Server | Yes. See Choosing BackOffice Server Products. | Yes. See Choosing BackOffice Server Products. | Yes. See Choosing BackOffice Server Products. |
| Certificate Server | No | No | No. |
| Index Server | Yes. See Choosing BackOffice Server Products. | Yes. See Choosing BackOffice Server Products. | Yes. Microsoft Search Service used to implement full-text search. |
| Internet Information Server 4.0 | Yes. See IIS Brings the CML to the Web. | Yes. See IIS Brings the CML to the Web. | |
| Message Queue Server | No | No | No. |
| Proxy Server | No | No | No. |
| Site Server 3.0 | No | No | No. |
| Transaction Server 2.0 | Yes. See MTS Contributions to the CML. | Yes. See MTS Contributions to the CML. | Yes. See MTSEnvironment Module and Bas Modules in Litware.dll. |
| Key Microsoft products and technologies | |||
| Active Directory Service Interfaces | Yes. See ADSI in the CML Application. | Yes. See ADSI in the CML Application. | No. |
| Active Server Pages | Yes. See Active Server Pages in the CML. | Yes. See Active Server Pages in the CML. | Yes. See Using ASP in the PT application and ASP in the PT application. |
| Active Template Library | No | No | No. |
| ActiveX® Data Objects | Yes. See ADO in the CML Application. | Yes. See ADO in the CML Application. | Yes. See Standard Objects and Object Models. |
| Collaboration Data Objects | No | Yes. See Using CDO in the CML/LitCrit Application. | No. |
| Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Server | No | No | No. |
| Component Object Model | Yes. See Using COM Objects. | Yes. See Using COM Objects and Components and Objects in CML/LitCrit. | Yes. See Custom COM Objects and Modules. |
| Internet Explorer 4.01 | Yes. See Designing the CML User Interface. | Yes. See Designing the CML User Interface. | No. |
| Internet Explorer 5 | Yes. See Internet Explorer and XML. | ||
| Remote Data Services | Yes. See RDS in the CML Application. | Yes. See About RDS Customization Handlers. | |
| SMTP Service | No | No | No. |
| Development tools | |||
| Dynamic HTML | Yes. See Markup Languages. | Yes. See Markup Languages. | Yes. |
| Extensible Markup Language | No | No | Yes. See XML and the PT Application, Internet Explorer and XML, and Implementing PT Application XML Features. |
| JScript® | Yes. See JScript. | Yes. See JScript. | Yes. See Reusable JavaScript. |
| Visual Basic 6.0 | Yes. See Visual Basic 6.0. | Yes. See Visual Basic 6.0. | Yes. See Components in the PT Application, Components in NLS.dll and Litware.dll, and HTML Data Refinery. |
| Visual Basic Scripting Edition | Yes. See VBScript. | Yes. See VBScript and CML/LitCrit Outlook and Exchange Scripts. | Yes. See ASP in the PT Application and PT Admin Application ASP Source Files. |
| Visual C++® 6.0 | No | No | No. |
| Visual InterDev® 6.0 | Yes. See Visual InterDev 6.0. | Yes. See Visual InterDev 6.0. | Yes. |
| Visual J++® 6.0 | No | No | No. |
| Microsoft Office products | |||
| Access | No | No | No. |
| Excel | No | No | No. |
| FrontPage® | No | No | No. |
| Outlook® | No | Yes. See LitCrit Outlook Application. | No. |
| PowerPoint® | No | No | No. |
| Word | No | No | No. |