Software Required for Developing our ASP Ecommerce Application

• IIS
• Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)
• Dreamweaver
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008
• Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0

IIS

Formerly called Internet Information Server – is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows. IIS 7.5 supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS,SMTP and NNTP. It is an integral part of Windows Server family of products, as well as certain editions of Windows XP,Windows Vista and Windows 7. IIS is not turned on by default when Windows is installed.

MTS

Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) was software that provided services to Component Object Model (COM) software components, to make it easier to create large distributed applications. The major services provided by MTS were  automated transaction management, instance management (or just-in-time activation) and role-based security. MTS is considered to be the first major software to implement aspect-oriented programming

For more details please read my previous article on MTS dated, Monday, January 10, 2011

Microsoft SQL Server 2008:

This database product, rather than Microsoft Access, was chosen since it's a great product for use in building both small, but scalable, solutions and in the development of large distributed applications, like an e-commerce site. We use this database both for development and on the production server.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0

This will be used for building our business objects for the business tier of our application.

Dreamweaver

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a professional HTML editor for designing, coding, and developing websites, web pages, and web applications. Whether you enjoy the control of hand-coding HTML or prefer to work in a visual editing environment, Dreamweaver provides you with helpful tools to enhance your web creation experience.

Dreamweaver also provides a full-featured coding environment that includes code-editing tools (such as code coloring and tag completion) and language reference material on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, and ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), among others. Macromedia Roundtrip HTML technology imports your hand-coded HTML documents without reformatting the code; you can then reformat code with your preferred formatting style.

Dreamweaver also enables you to build dynamic database-backed web applications using server technologies such as CFML, ASP.NET, ASP, JSP, and PHP.