<TD>Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 (IIS) was designed with five tenets in mind: Ease-of-use, Programmability, Robustness and Security, Standards, <A onclick="javascript:window.open('HowItWorks/HIWProduct.asp?m=42','','resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=450')">Performance</A> and Scalability.
<P>IIS is implemented as a Windows NT service and is the foundation on which this sample site is built.
<TD>Active Server Pages (ASP) enables server-side scripting for <A HREF=#IIS>IIS</A> with native support for both <A HREF=#VBScript>VBScript</A> and <A HREF=#JScript>JScript</A>, Microsofts version of JavaScript.
Using ASP, a developer or Webmaster can create dynamic and personalized web pages.
With this version of IIS, ASP-based solutions (Web applications) can be marked as transactional, and all transactions-aware components will be enlisted in the transaction.
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This site uses Active Server Pages extensively, and we recommend you take the time to look at and learn from the sample ASP code.
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<TD><A NAME="MTS"></A>Microsoft® Transaction Server
<TD>Microsoft SQLáServer is a high-performance relational database management system designed specifically for enterprise- class distributed computing.
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The Exploration Air site uses SQL Server to store all transactional data. Transactional in this sense means under the transaction control of <A HREF=#MTS>Transaction Server</A>.
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<TD><A NAME="CertSrv"></A>Microsoft® Certificate Server
<TD>The ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) programming model represents the best of the existing Microsoft data access programming models. If you are familiar with Data Access Objects (DAO) or Remote Data Objects (RDO), you will recognize the interfaces and will be able to work with them very quickly. You will also notice considerable improvements in the model; tasks that were awkward in previous models have either been fixed or eliminated from the ADO model.
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Exploration Air uses ADO throughout from <A HREF=#ASP>ASP</A> scripts to applications written in
programming languages such as <A HREF=#VB>Visual Basic</A>, <A HREF=#Java>Visual J++</A>
<TD>Microsoft Index Server works with Internet Information Server to provide your organization access to all of the documents stored on your intranet or Internet site. You can perform
full-text searches and retrieve all types of information from any Web browser, in just about any format.
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The Exploration Air site uses Index Server to index all documents and publicity material.
<TD>Visual Basic Scripting Edition (also known as VBScript) is a subset of the Microsoft Visual Basic language. It is implemented as a fast, portable, lightweight interpreter for use in World Wide Web browsers and other applications that use ActiveX Controls, OLE Automation servers, and Java applets.
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This site mainly uses VBScript for server-side script code in <A HREF=#ASP>ASP</A>.