Updating a Complete Database Application

In the previous two sections, you’ve learned how to convert existing DCOM applications. We’ve used both an ASP and an ISAPI Listener approach in these two sections. These two examples provide you with a good understanding of the DCOM part of the picture—what you need to do in order to get an existing application running as quickly as possible under SOAP.

Chapter 8, “Providing Remote Database Access,” is going to show you how to create a full-fledged database management example using a third-party product. In some respects, the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit is still very much a diamond in the rough. I decided that another toolkit is better suited to working with SOAP after a lot of consideration. While this is ...

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