Requirements

1. Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0
2. Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0 or later (or Microsoft Personal Web Server) with Active Server Pages installed
3. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
4. Remote Data Services installed on the server
5. Catalog project files

This project makes extensive use of Remote Data Services (RDS) for accessing ODBC data sources on the Web server. You must have RDS installed on the Windows NT server where you have installed Internet Information Server. The server portion of RDS is included on the CD-ROM that accompanies this book. The client portion of RDS (known as the Advanced Data Control) ships with Internet Explorer 4.0 and does not require any additional installation.

This project was created using the Preview 2 version of IE 4.0. As a result, some parts of the exercise might require minor modifications to accommodate the final release of IE 4.0. In particular, you should be careful to note the CLSID attributes of the <OBJECT> tags in the code. Quite often CLSID attributes change between the preview and final release of a product. In most cases, any required changes should be minor.

The database used by the online catalog is named HOME.MDB and is a Microsoft Access database. You will need to copy this file to the server where your RDS components can access the data. Later in the project, you will set up an ODBC data source for the database.