In addition to the BDG's "scenarios" (its main sample applications), the design of three other sample applications is also described briefly. The Documentation Review Tool, Island Hopper News, and the Fitch & Mather Expense Reporting Tool are presented as a high-level discussion in BackOffice Solutions.
For more information about Island Hopper News, see the Microsoft® Visual Studio® version 6.0 Enterprise Edition documentation. This application is also discussed in detail in Mastering Enterprise Development Using Microsoft Visual Basic® 6.0, a CD-ROM available from Microsoft Press®.
The following table provides links to the Microsoft products, tools, and technologies used to build the "solutions" (applications discussed at a high level) in the BDG.
Products and Technologies in BDG Solutions
| BackOffice Server 4.0 products | Solution A: Documentation Review Tool |
Solution B: Island Hopper News |
Solution C: Expense Reporting Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exchange Server 5.5 | No | No | No |
| SNA Server 4.0 | No | No | No |
| SQL Server™ 6.5 | Yes. See How the Documentation Review Tool Uses BackOffice. | Yes. See Data Access in Island Hopper News. | Yes. See How the Expense Reporting Tool Uses BackOffice. |
| Systems Management Server 1.2 | No | No | No |
| Windows NT® and Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack | |||
| Windows NT Server | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Certificate Server | No | No | No |
| Index Server | No | No | No |
| Internet Information Server 4.0 | Yes. See How the Documentation Review Tool Uses BackOffice. | Yes | Yes |
| Message Queue Server | No | Yes | No |
| Proxy Server | No | No | No |
| Site Server 3.0 | No | No | No |
| Transaction Server 2.0 | Yes | Yes. See Component Design in Island Hopper News. | Yes |
| Key Microsoft products and technologies | |||
| Active Directory Service Interfaces | No | No | Yes |
| Active Server Pages | Yes. See Documentation Review Tool's Evolving Design. | Yes | Yes |
| Active Template Library | No | No | Yes |
| ActiveX® Data Objects | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Collaboration Data Objects | No | No | No |
| Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Server | Yes. See How the Documentation Review Tool Uses BackOffice. | No | Yes |
| Component Object Model | Yes | Yes. See Component Design in Island Hopper News. | Yes. See Expense Reporting Tool Components. |
| Internet Explorer 4.01 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Data Services | No | Yes | Yes |
| SMTP Service | Yes | No | Yes |
| Development tools | |||
| Dynamic HTML | Yes | Yes | No |
| Extensible Markup Language | No | No | Yes |
| JScript® | No | Yes | Yes |
| Visual Basic 6.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Visual Basic Scripting Edition | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Visual C++® 6.0 | No | Yes | Yes |
| Visual Interdev™ 6.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Visual J++® 6.0 | No | No | Yes |
| Microsoft Office products | |||
| Access | No | No | No |
| Excel | No | No | Yes |
| FrontPage® | No | No | No |
| Outlook® | No | No | No |
| PowerPoint® | No | No | No |
| Word | No | No | No |