Scenario 1: Fitch & Mather Corporate Media Library Application

This section of the BackOffice® Developer's Guide presents a three-tier application serving the fictional Fitch & Mather Corporation (F & M). The application is called the Corporate Media Library (CML). Its creation is described here as the process might unfold in a real scenario. The discussions that follow take you from the planning issues through the development of code to issues involved with deployment. We conclude the discussion with some of the lessons we learned along the way, difficulties and opportunities encountered by the F & M developers that every BackOffice developer should know about.

There are two possible sources for the CML sample application files:

• A distribution CD that contains the BackOffice Developer's Guide and the sample applications
• The Microsoft Platform SDK site on the World Wide Web, at http://msdn.microsoft.com/developer/sdk/bdg.asp