Web Development Consulting Creating Active Server Pages using VBScript, Microsoft Transaction Server, Visual Basic, Active Data Objects, and SQL Server. Web applications that are both realiable and scalable running on Windows NT with Internet Information Server. Providing scalability and load testing using Microsoft's Web Capacity Analysis Tool. Active Server Pages (ASP) A scalable scripting environment which runs with Internet Information Server and allows the creation of components from the web server. Creates standard objects that allows programmers to acquire information about the server and form information. VBScript The preferred scripting language for ASP. VBScript provides several features that Visual Basic does, but not all of the language's functions. Microsoft's Transaction Server (MTS) Microsoft's transaction server and object request broker that provides scalability for the IIS environment. MTS provides both ODBC connection pooling and request brokering. It allows developers to create COM components that can then be called from their ASP pages Visual Basic (VB) The development language that developers use to create COM objects. COM objects have an object oriented interface that make difficult or tedious operations as simple as calling methods of a component. When the developer creates a component they can then put the component inside MTS. Active Data Objects (ADO) Microsoft's data access technology which provides a standard interface for executing standard database operations with an object oriented interface. SQL Server Microsoft's back end database server Web Capacity Analysis Tool A free load testing tool provided by Microsoft which can simulate many users interacting with a web site. It allows the developer to try many scenarios against a web page or many pages that they have created. It shows the developer how they can optimize their code and database access.