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Designing for Scalability with Microsoft Windows DNA (DV-MPS Designing)

ISBN: 0735609683
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2000
Pages: 133

Authors: Per Sundblad, Sten Sundblad

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• Cover
• LOC Page
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Interest at Microsoft
• The Later History of the Report
• New Technical Report in 1999
• What About COM and XML?
• MTS vs. COM
• This Book Is Not an MTS or a COM Tutorial
• Chapter 1 -- Planning for a New Architecture
• Three Tiers -- Or Five If You Like
• Using ADO Recordsets
• XML Is a Long-Term Solution
• Chapter 2 -- Designing for Scalability
• Scalability Is About Resource Economy
• Three-Tier Services Model
• Three Kinds of Business Services
• Where Do Visual Basic, COM, and MTS Fit In?
• End of Overview
• Chapter 3 -- On Rules and Their Locations
• Introducing the Application
• Chapter 4 -- Implementing the Rules
• The Database
• Rule 1: Bred in Country
• Rule 2: One and Only One Trainer
• Rule 3: Value of Sex Must Be Valid
• Rule 4: Only One Kind of Sex Change Allowed
• Rule 5: Between 1 and 15 Years Old
• Rule 6: Don t Delete a Horse That Has Run at Least One Race
• Rule 7: Unique Combination of Name and Country Where Bred
• Rule 8: Unique ID When Inserted
• Conclusion
• Chapter 5 -- Modeling the First Business Tier
• Tiers and Classes
• Modeling User Services and Facades
• Chapter 6 -- Reducing Time to Market
• A Good Fit
• Using Test Stubs
• A Test Form
• Chapter 7 -- Prototyping a DHTML User Interface
• A Very Early Dynamic GUI Prototype
• Some Script Examples
• Using Separate Interfaces from Script
• Back to the Server Side
• Chapter 8 -- Designing the Main Business Tier
• The Facade Class Reengineered
• Delegating to Entity and Set Classes
• Calling Them Managers
• Renaming the Packages
• Chapter 9 -- Using Separate COM Interfaces
• Controlling Connections
• Generalizing COM Interfaces
• About Moving the ReturnType Argument to the Interfaces
• Chapter 10 -- Implementing the Facades
• Generating Main Business and Interface Code
• Moving the Test Stubs
• Getting a List of Trainers for the Combo Box
• Getting a List of Horse Names
• Learning on the Job
• Chapter 11 -- Making it Simpler
• Parsing Interface Events
• Simplifying and Multiplying the COM Interfaces
• Conclusion
• Chapter 12 -- Delegating Data Access
• Why Can t the Managers Access Data Directly?
• Separate COM Data Access Interfaces
• Chapter 13 -- Implementing the Managers and Data Access
• Generating Code for Data Access Classes
• Getting the Horse List
• Getting a Single Horse
• Saving Data for a Horse
• Deleting (or Deactivating) a Horse
• Chapter 14 -- Using Microsoft Transaction Server
• The Context Object
• Implementing the IObjectControl Interface
• Adapting Components to MTS
• What About the Data Environment?
• The Friend and New Keywords
• A Few Musts and Shoulds
• Chapter 15 -- A COM Overview
• COM Component Services
• The Basic Idea Behind COM
• Some Features of COM
• Some Final General Thoughts About COM
• COM on Windows NT 4.0
• Chapter 16 -- Creating Some COM Components for the Sample Application
• The IObjectControl Interface
• Conclusion
• Chapter 17 -- Securing Good Database Performance and Scalability
• Reusing Query Plans
• Using Stored Procedures
• Chapter 18 -- Other Use Cases and Other Facades
• A Few Examples
• Designing the Main Business Classes
• A Framework
• Chapter 19 -- Hierarchical Recordsets -- Pros and Cons
• More About the Form and the Code
• Three Different Ways of Relating Children to Parents
• More than Two Levels
• Other Issues
• Conclusion
• Chapter 20 -- An XML Overview
• The Nature of XML
• Using Document Type Definition for Schema Definitions
• Using XML-Data for Schema Definitions
• Scripting with XML and XML DOM
• Data Binding Using XML DSO
• Using XSL to Present XML Documents
• A Final General XML Example
• Chapter 21 -- XML with ADO 2.5 for Our Components
• XML Support in ADO 2.5
• SQL Server 2000 and XML
• Simple Object Access Protocol
• Chapter 22 -- What About the Business Rules?
• Foreign Key Constraints
• Check Constraints
• Unique Constraints
• Identity Columns
• Business Object Constraints
• Chapter 23 -- Some Final Issues
• Complex Transactions
• COM and MTS Packaging
• Revisiting the Stateful Model
• Library Packages and Applications
• The Connection String
• Newsgroup Services
• Bibliography
• About the Authors
• Footnotes
• About This Electronic Book
• About Microsoft Press