Microsoft Corporation
December 1999
Applies To: Microsoft FrontPage; Microsoft Access; Microsoft Internet Information Server; Microsoft Jet; Microsoft Outlook; Microsoft Windows NT
Summary: This article provides links to other articles about creating Web solutions. (9 printed pages)
The Microsoft® FrontPage® Server Extensions are a set of server-side applications that let multiple authors collaborate on the same Web site and Web server. This article provides an overview of features provided by Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 Server Extensions.
This article describes the new database features in FrontPage 2000 that provide an easy way to create Web pages that incorporate useful information from a variety of data sources.
This article offers an introduction to security issues addressed by FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/serk/
This online book on the Microsoft Office Update site offers comprehensive information about the use and administration of FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions.
This article describes two scenarios where a business uses FrontPage Server Extensions. In the first, an organization uses the FrontPage Server Extensions on its intranet to share all kinds of information internally. In the second, an Internet service provider finds it easy and profitable to host FrontPage-extended Web sites.
This article describes connectivity and security aspects in creating new databases, or connecting to existing ones, in FrontPage 2000.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q215/4/55.ASP
This Knowledge Base article describes how to change the theme of the pages in a web that were created with Microsoft Word.
If you’ve invested significant time in developing PowerPoint® presentations, you can easily port those presentations to the Internet. This article shows you how to do so.
This chapter from Building Applications with Microsoft Access 97 shows you how to use Microsoft Access to develop applications that retrieve, publish, and share information on the Internet or a local area network (LAN).
This article provides a brief overview with extensive links to further information on the tools and techniques available to publish data on the Web (or other environments) with Microsoft technologies.
This article shows you the basics of connecting to Access databases from a Web page.
This paper discusses how to provide access to Microsoft Access databases from a Web browser and describes a sample application that uses Microsoft Access 95 for this purpose.
This article presents the basics of static Web publishing using 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.
This white paper by Microsoft program manager Leland Ahlbeck addresses issues affecting speed in an Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 environment when returning data to a Web client. The discussion focuses on Microsoft products, but some of the issues raised may pertain to other OLE-DB data providers or open database connectivity (ODBC) drivers.
In this article, Microsoft program manager Mary Haggard describes how to connect data sources to HTML pages. Her article explains some of the options, deciphers acronyms, talks about tools that can make things work, and points you to more information.
This article by Product Support Services managing editor Tom Moran poses (and answers) the question, “What could possibly be more fun than debugging server-side objects written in Java?” This is the first in a series of three articles.
Tom Moran continues a series of articles by explaining how to create a simple Access database that holds some quotes, and how to modify the Java object and ASP page to randomly pull one of those quotes up whenever the page is refreshed. His article also discusses using the new Windows® Foundation Classes (WFC), which wrap Active Data Objects (ADO), for database access.
Tom Moran finishes his series of articles by describing how to get the actual record count, and adding error checking.
This article by Nancy Winnick Cluts explains what the different data objects are, when you use them, and why they are useful. You’ll also get lots of links to other relevant information.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/access/content/repl/replintov.asp
This white paper describes the following processes: setting up your Internet or intranet server, including several examples for Microsoft Internet Servers; configuring Microsoft Replication Manager 3.5 to manage Internet synchronization; and creating and distributing a replica set for Internet synchronization.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/access/content/repl/replintwp.asp
This article by Microsoft Support engineer Mike Wachal describes how to perform Internet synchronization of Jet 3.5 databases.
This online book provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive guide to topics of interest to Web developers who use Extensible Markup Language (XML).
This article offers in-depth information on using Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL).
This developer portal site provides tips on where to go on Microsoft’s Web sites for information about XML.
This document describes how you can use the security zones and XML parser of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 together. The following topics are discussed: accessing data across domains, accessing data across protocols, and accessing data across zones.
The following articles by Charles Heinemann, Microsoft Program Manager for XML, were originally published in the Site Builder Network Magazine “Extreme XML” column (now MSDN Online Voices “Extreme XML”).
This tutorial consists of a set of interactive lessons, listed below, that walk you through typical XML authoring and development tasks.
This article describes a real-world scenario in which XML is used to centralize a purchasing system.
This article offers a lengthy introduction to the topic of using XML in Web applications.
In this article, Microsoft Developer Technology Engineer Nancy Winnick Cluts explains what scripting is, describes the different Microsoft scripting languages (Visual Basic® Scripting Edition [VBScript] and Jscript®) that are available; provides information about server-side scripting; and, at the end of the article, provides a list of links to resources for more information about scripting.
These seven chapters from the Microsoft Press® book include four sample projects that use VBScript to create Web applications.
This chapter from Professional IE4 Programming introduces the concept of Scriptlets, and shows you how to get started using them in your own pages.
www.microsoft.com/Mind/1298/office/office.htm
This article from Microsoft Interactive Developer provides an overview of some ways you can use Office 2000 in your Web applications.
This series of articles from the Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit documents how Microsoft Office 2000 users can use Office Server Extensions to publish documents, participate in discussions, and collaborate on team projects.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/9/28.ASP
This Knowledge Base article describes how to begin a discussion and post further discussions in a Microsoft Office 2000 application.
This series of articles from the Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit shows you how to publish and manage online documents, create and publish your own Web sites, and, with the new broadcasting features in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, broadcast presentations and multimedia shows in real time on your own network.
In this article, Windows Media Technologies program manager Brooks Cutter describes how to use PowerPoint 2000 to broadcast presentations live over the Internet.
Microsoft Developer Technology Engineer Nancy Winnick Cluts took a look at the documentation, attended a couple of presentations at Tech*Ed 97, surfed the Internet, and came up with some answers about what the Active Server Pages technology really is, its complexity level, and where you can find more detailed information (lots of links!).
This article provides an easy way to find information pertaining to ASP; including a short definition of what ASP is, how ASP works, and an alphabetical list of terms and tips that relate to ASP.
In this compilation of tips, Microsoft Developer Technology Engineer Nancy Winnick Cluts provides ways to streamline the performance of your Web pages and to improve your coding style.
This series of four chapters from the Wrox Press book describes using ADO and ASP to build client/server applications.
This series of five chapters from the Wrox Press book covers security issues, Internet mail, and using Microsoft Transaction Server and Microsoft Index Server in electronic commerce applications.
In this overview article Microsoft Developer Technology Engineer Nancy Winnick Cluts answers the following questions about using ActiveX® components with ASP. Where can you find information about available components? What tools help you build components? Where can you find samples for building components?
Microsoft Product Support manager Mike Fenbert provides this online catalog of components you can use as building blocks for your Web pages and Web-based applications.
In this article you’ll see 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.
This tool provides a way to convert a form designed and created in Microsoft Outlook® into a form usable on the Web—that is, a form created from HTML and ASP code.
With Microsoft Outlook Web Access, users can access data on a Microsoft Exchange Server computer by using an Internet browser (one that supports frames and JavaScript) from a UNIX, Macintosh, or Microsoft Windows-based computer.
This chapter from the Office 97/Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide shows you how to use Microsoft Office 97 to develop applications that retrieve, publish, and share information on the Internet or a local area network (LAN).
Vector Markup Language (VML) is an XML-based exchange, editing, and delivery format for high-quality vector graphics on the Web that meets the needs of both productivity users and graphic design professionals. This article provides a brief introduction, with links to an FAQ, demos, and further information.
This article provides an overview of the activities involved in publishing on the World Wide Web and Microsoft’s current software solutions for those activities.
This article provides a brief introduction to security on Microsoft Windows NT®.
This article provides a brief introduction to UNIX Web server security.
This article gives you an overview of how to protect your FrontPage sites.