Building Elise's Emporium

The next step is building the Web site that will use the Web Service to display information to customers. At the Elise's Emporium Web site, the data from JLD generally takes too long to download each time someone wants a product listing. In addition, most distributors only update their product databases once a day. For those reasons, the data will be downloaded once a day and be stored in a local database. The Web site can read from the local copy of the database for the Web pages that need that information. The download could be done with a Windows Service application (which you can also create in Visual Studio .NET), but we will download the data a bit more frequently for this application. If the last download was ...

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