Hour 14. ATL Servers
The Active Template Library (ATL) Server is a new technology within Visual C++ .NET not present in previous versions of Visual Studio. ATL Server is a server-based technology that runs on the Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server platform. It plays a dual role within the .NET Framework, having the ability to create Web Services, as you saw in Hour 11, “Creating Web Services,” as well as Web applications, the topic of this hour.
ATL Server uses a tag-replacement methodology similar to the way ASP.NET functions. In other words, a certain tag (otherwise known as a replacement tag, consisting of a string of characters enclosed within two curly braces on each end) is encountered by the Web server (IIS), and rather than ...
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