Next Steps

We have covered a lot of ground in this chapter. In the process of putting together a simple auction house, we have learned

  • How to explicitly create recordsets and filter and move around within them

  • How to create a record without using an insert statement, avoiding problems with punctuation.

  • How to encode information so we can pass it along on a URL.

  • How to generate random numbers.

  • What a database transaction is, and how it effects us.

  • How to lock the Application object to ensure consistency in our data.

  • How to register a third-party component.

  • How to use a third-party component, specifically to send email from within the application. In the next chapter we will create an electronic storefront with products that can reside in multiple categories, ...

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