Setting Up Your Development Environment

To develop an application like CML/LitCrit, you first need to install Microsoft® Visual Basic® and the other tools you will use to produce code. (Although you can use a text editor like Notepad to write HTML and ASP files, the F & M developers used Microsoft Visual InterDev™.)

To create certain other elements of the combined CML/LitCrit application, the F & M developers needed to configure their development system in certain ways. Much of this configuration involves making the system conform to the security demands of the elements you will be using, such as the Event Service of Microsoft Exchange Server.

We recommend that a system administrator perform the following procedures before development work begins. Please be sure these procedures are complete before you start the procedures for installing the CML/LitCrit sample application presented in the Deployment section. It is especially important that you complete these procedures before beginning to re-engineer any of the parts of CML/LitCrit, for example, to add custom functionality.

To set up the development environment for the CML/LitCrit application

1. Create an Account for agent installation.
2. Create a Microsoft Exchange Server Profile.
3. Grant permission for working with agents.
4. Enable Event Service scripting.
5. Install the Organizational Forms Library.