Microsoft Corporation
November 1999
Applies To: Microsoft® FrontPage® 97, 98, and 2000; Microsoft Visual InterDev®
Summary: This article provides an extensive list of Microsoft FrontPage® solution development resources available on the MSDN, Office Update, Personal Online Support, TechNet, and other Microsoft Web sites. (9 printed pages)
Take a look at our own permanent listing of links to “core knowledge” resources, including the Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 SDK.
This is our December 1999 listing of important and late-breaking topics on FrontPage solution development.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/serk/
This section of the Microsoft Office Update Web site provides information to help you set up, run, and maintain your FrontPage-extended web.
JustAddCommerce for Microsoft FrontPage instantly adds SSL-secured shopping cart systems to any existing Web sites. This technology is designed to give small- to medium-sized companies all the features of a high-priced electronic commerce system for a fraction of the cost. JustAddCommerce requires no HTML programming and is compatible with any type of server or Internet service provider (ISP).
This Web Workshop white paper provides an overview of the Themes feature of Microsoft Office 2000, and complementary features in the FrontPage 2000 Web site creation and management tool.
The Microsoft Office product site for FrontPage contains a broad array of information about FrontPage, including demos, product feature details, and downloads.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/60Minute.htm
Workgroup webs—internal, team, or department-level intranet sites—allow team members to share documents, communicate ideas, and analyze information, leading to better decision-making and results. This download on the Microsoft Office Update site makes it easy to build workgroup web sites by taking advantage of the new Web collaboration features in Office 2000 Premium.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/focus/articles/FPsecurity.htm
Setting permissions gives you a degree of security for your FrontPage-based Web. This article on the Microsoft Office Update site presents additional strategies you can employ to keep your web and Web server safe from malicious or careless use.
The article gives you step-by-step instructions on how to publish with FrontPage 2000 and highlights the differences between publishing with FrontPage 98 and FrontPage 2000.
www.microsoft.com/insider/frontpage2000/default.htm
This page on the Microsoft Product Insider Web site has links to tips, free downloads, and special offers.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/Articles/fpusers.htm
This article on the Microsoft Office Update site provides links to FrontPage user groups across the world. Well, almost across the world. Last time we looked it included user groups from Denver to Gloucestershire in the U.K.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/news/Ngresults.asp?D=fpg
If you’re looking for lively discussion on developing applications with FrontPage, take a look at the public newsgroups listed on this page on the Microsoft Personal Online Support site. These newsgroups, which have an international audience, are the ideal forums for interacting with other developers who are interested in this subject, including FrontPage experts.
See vbafp4.chm and vbafpom4.chm files for reference topics covering all FrontPage object model language elements, as well as invaluable topics such as “Creating Web Sites Programmatically.” The default installation path for these files is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\1033.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q237/7/97.ASP
This Knowledge Base article demonstrates how you can set the publish status of files in your FrontPage 2000 web by using Microsoft Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA).
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles/fpvba.htm
This article on Microsoft Office Update shows how to build a procedure that explains how to add the Save All command—a command that saves all the open pages in Page view—to your File menu.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q230/5/79.ASP
This Knowledge Base article shows you how to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code and the Office CommandBar object model to get access to most-recently-used (MRU) items from within FrontPage.
This section of the FrontPage 2000 documentation in the MSDN Library provides a thorough introduction to the use of Visual Basic for Applications in creating Web sites with FrontPage 2000.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q237/6/72.ASP
This Knowledge Base article explains how to use Visual Basic for Applications to loop through all files in a FrontPage web.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/community/gazette/g081899a.asp
This tip in the MSDN Member Gazette describes how to use Visual Basic for Applications code to insert text at the editor’s current insertion point.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q240/9/04.ASP
This Knowledge Base article explains how to create the appearance of a new instance of FrontPage by using Visual Basic for Applications.
This section of the FrontPage 2000 documentation in the MSDN Library discusses how to use Visual Basic for Applications to program the content of frames in FrontPage 2000.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q237/5/85.ASP
This Knowledge Base article describes how to write a macro in FrontPage 2000 that saves all open pages that have been changed.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q238/4/10.ASP
The sample code in this Knowledge Base article changes the capitalization of the file and folder names in the active web to lowercase.
The Microsoft Office Update site offers downloads to extend your Office 2000 capabilities, including the following third-party add-ins for FrontPage developers.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/tgfp.htm
With Microsoft FrontPage and this third-party tool, available as a download on the Microsoft Office Update site, a Webmaster or Web site author can easily embed metadata into documents without ever looking at HTML code.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/Webchart.htm
WebCharts, available as a download on the Microsoft Office Update site, is a charting tool that you can use to create Web reports and applications. Use WebCharts with Microsoft FrontPage® 2000 or a Microsoft Visual InterDev® editor to design graphical pages in WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) mode and view them on any platform, in any browser.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/elsv102l.htm
El Scripto Lite™ is an easy way to add JavaScript to your Microsoft FrontPage® Web sites without coding. Hard-to-program components become just a few mouse clicks away with El Scripto Lite. It integrates seamlessly with the FrontPage Editor, and is available as a download on the Microsoft Office Update site.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/Hivisfp.htm
Use Hi-Visibility™, available as a download on the Microsoft Office Update site, and FrontPage to verify and submit your World Wide Web site to the major search engines directly from the FrontPage Editor.
This article by Microsoft program manager Roy Leban shows how data access pages in Microsoft Access 2000 allow you to make data available to anybody who has Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and a Microsoft Office 2000 license.
This paper by Microsoft Access program manager Brett Tanzer focuses on how you can connect data access pages together, either by using the tools provided in the Microsoft Access design environment or by manipulating the DHTML Document object model through scripting technologies, such as Microsoft Visual Basic, Scripting Edition (VBScript).
This introduction by Clint Covington to data access pages for secured databases includes step-by-step examples showing how to use Microsoft Access 2000 to create data access pages for secured Microsoft Access and Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) databases.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloadDetails/Jacdemo.htm?s=/downloadCatalog/dldFrontPage.htm
JustAddCommerce for FrontPage 97/98 instantly adds SSL-secured shopping-cart systems to any existing Web sites. This revolutionary technology is designed to give the small- to medium-sized company all the features of a high-priced electronic commerce system for a fraction of the cost. These features include secured order transmission, built-in shipping options, automatic tax calculation, a customizable checkout form, and foreign currency symbols. JustAddCommerce requires no HTML programming and is compatible with any type of server or Internet service provider (ISP).
FrontPage 98 has everything you need to design and build a great-looking, easy-to-navigate World Wide Web site—quickly and easily. Product documentation is included in the MSDN Online Library.
This paper provides an overview of the key concepts that you’ll need to know for building and managing your intranet by using Microsoft FrontPage.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/frontpage/fp98/aspwiz.asp
The Active Server Page Wizard is a sample wizard designed to help you use FrontPage and Active Server Page technology. You can download the wizard from the Microsoft Product Support Web site, run setup, open it in FrontPage, and follow along with the examples.
With the Microsoft Exchange Discussion Wizard for Microsoft FrontPage, you can quickly create a discussion Web site, or add discussion to an existing Web site, without writing any Active Server Pages (ASP) or HTML script. This section of the Platform SDK in the MSDN Library provides documentation and a download link.
Planning a Web site for the first time can be daunting. This article in the Web Workshop is designed to answer the questions of those not familiar with the various ins and outs of Web publishing.
This article in the Web Workshop provides an overview of the activities involved in publishing on the World Wide Web and Microsoft’s current software solutions for those activities. This guide is intended for readers with little or limited knowledge of online technology as well as experienced Web publishers.
This article in the Web Workshop lists and provides links to third-party tools that will help you incorporate Dynamic HTML effects into your Web pages.
With FrontPage, you can easily create custom database queries on dynamic, richly formatted Web pages, providing visitors to your Internet or intranet site with “information at their fingertips.” This section of the FrontPage 98 documentation in the MSDN Library tells you how.
The following series of three ZD Journals articles on the Web Workshop site discusses using FrontPage and Microsoft Access together to publish data to the World Wide Web.
Publish Microsoft Access 97 Data Using FrontPage
This article presents the basics of static Web publishing using FrontPage 98 with Access 97. You’ll see how to publish datasheets and printed reports. The examples and recommendations will guide you around the pitfalls so you can successfully put this technique to work with a minimum amount of effort.
Using Active Server Pages Technology to Display Microsoft Access Data
This article shows you how to use Active Server Pages (ASP) technology to dynamically display data. The advantage to dynamic display is that each time a user loads the page that includes Access data, the most current version of the data will display.
Posting Data to an Access Database
This article shows you how to use FrontPage to let users post information to the database used in the two previous articles. Taken together, these techniques can allow people who view your Web site pages to both read from and write to Access databases.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q175/7/70.asp
This article describes how to post new information to a Microsoft Access 97 database by using FrontPage 98 and Active Server Pages (ASP).
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/frontpg/manuals/start/FrontPageWWW/022FP.asp
This article on the Microsoft TechNet Web site walks you through the steps required to integrate a database into a FrontPage web.
Developers, writers, and designers can all work on the same Web project by using Microsoft FrontPage and Microsoft Visual InterDev® in conjunction. This article from the Visual InterDev documentation details issues to be aware of when using both FrontPage and Visual InterDev on the same Web application.
Security for Web applications is a complicated subject because it can be set at several levels in several different ways. This article provides a top-down description of security settings in Visual InterDev and FrontPage.
This section of the Visual InterDev documentation provides information about remote debugging, deploying Web applications, and using FrontPage and Visual InterDev together to develop Web applications.
Microsoft technical writer Elizabeth Murray describes issues you should consider when attempting to use both Visual InterDev and FrontPage to modify the same Web application.
FrontPage Server Extensions are a set of server-side applications that let users incorporate a set of advanced features without having to write the complex server-side programs they typically require. They can be downloaded from the Microsoft Web Workshop site.
This article in the Web Workshop lists frequently asked questions (and answers too!) about Microsoft FrontPage 98 Server Extensions.
This article from the Visual InterDev documentation set presents three different ways to make your Web application available to your users: with or without FrontPage Server Extensions, or manually copying files to the server.
Here is a compilation of non-Microsoft sites that appear to offer content on FrontPage 98 and FrontPage 2000. We can’t validate or recommend any of their content, but they’re worth a look, at least.
http://www.server101.com/frontpage/
http://builder.cnet.com/Authoring/FrontPage98/
http://dynamicnet.net/support/frontpage.htm
http://4a2z.com/cgi/rfr.cgi?4FRONTPAGE-2-http://www.frontpageworld.com/