Development Tools and Languages

The Corporate Media Library (CML) programmers developed the CML application using a tool set that, along with the products available in Microsoft® BackOffice® Server version 4.0, contained the following:

Products used in the design and development of the CML:

• Microsoft Visual Basic version 6.0
• Microsoft Visual Modeler version 2.0
• Microsoft Visual InterDev version 6.0
• Microsoft SQL Server™ version 7.0 is described in SQL Server and the CML and CML Data-Services Tier.

Technologies used in the development of the CML:

• Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
• Active Server Pages (ASP) is discussed in CML Web Page Technologies and throughout the Implementation section.
• Component Object Model (COM) is discussed in About the CML Components and Designing the CML Components and Objects.
• Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript)
• Microsoft JScript®
• ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO) is discussed in ADO in the CML Application.
• Remote Data Service (RDS) is discussed in CML Data Access Using RDS and Using RDS ActiveX Controls.

For more information about any of these languages and tools, see the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN™) Library release that ships with Microsoft Visual Studio® 6.0.