Developing Web Applications

This guide provides an overview of Web application design and introduces the more advanced topics of building components and ISAPI extensions, data access, Web-based transactions, and performance.

This section contains:

• Web Applications: An Overview: Introduces the IIS programming model.
• Design Decisions: Describes several key issues you should consider in designing web applications.
• Accessing Data with ASP: Introduces data access from a Web page with Microsoft^® ActiveX^® Data Objects (ADO).
• Processing Transactions: Outlines how IIS and Component Services, available with Windows 2000 or later, work together to provide Web-based transactions.
• Security Ramifications for IIS Applications: Introduces the issues Web developers face when accessing and providing secure data.
• Development Technologies: Reviews some of the more recent Web technologies, such as XML and Dynamic HTML.
• Developing Scalable Web Applications: Describes the impact that Web application design decisions can have on server performance.
• Building Components for ASP: Reviews the development cycle for building components to be used by ASP.
• Developing ISAPI Extensions and Filters: Describes the Internet Server API (ISAPI) within the IIS architecture, and provides guidelines for developing ISAPI extensions and filters.