
The presentation presented here was created using Visual InterDev 6. These shots show some of the steps in its development:
- This is the InterDev environment. It lists all project contents in the Project Explorer on the right side.
- In the new project dialog box, you can select the type of project that you want to create. Usually, you will choose "New Web Project".
- You can visually create pages in the WYSIWYG editor. In this drag-and-drop environment, elements can be easily added to the page.
- You may also edit the HTML code and script attached to the page using the source editor. Elements of the RAD design approach are featured in this editor.
- The link view allows the developer to view all of the associations of a given page. A broken link is easily identified.
The MSDN offers help for the development of sites. It is built using Microsoft's HTML help interface and is a series of web pages using a customized browser interface.
- Here you can see the Script Outline as well as the Project Explorer, but the focus is on the script in the center panel. The script shown there is executed on the server side when this page is requested.
- This is the result of requesting the page with Netscape.
- Here again is the typical layout for an InterDev work session. The center panel in this case contains some script that executes on the client side during execution. This function simply checks to see if the entered number is less than ten.
- This is the result of entering the value "15" and clicking the button in Netscape.
- This shows the Properties dialog for the Grid DTC (Design-Time Control). Once a connection to a database has been created, setting up a grid display is as easy as selecting the fields to be displayed and providing a heading for each column.
- Here in the center panel is what Source View shows when a Recordset (connection to a database) has been inserted into a page. Also shown is what a grid control looks like in Source View. The window in the lower-right corner shows the Data View, where the Oracle connection can be seen.
- Here is the result of loading the page with Netscape. Although it is not shown here, when this page was loaded, the Oracle database was automatically started, and an instance was created for the page to retrieve its data.