Microsoft® .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting

Chapter 16. Invoicer.NET Traveling Sales

This chapter explores the solution to a common problem: coordinating the work of employees in the field. To make this example more relevant, we won’t build the solution from scratch. Instead, we’ll consider a scenario in which the new system must be based on an existing ad-hoc solution that uses Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel. Many companies begin with these simple tools to save small amounts of repetitive work and then encounter painful stumbling blocks as they try to apply this technology to serve a much larger audience. In this chapter, we’ll look at a migration path you can take to ease this setup into the Microsoft .NET world, beginning with a few server-side components to coordinate the data ...