I've recently had a lot of article ideas proposed and would like your 
feedback on whether they would make interesting articles for publication 
on www.ASPToday.com.

If anyone has any strong feelings either way on the following ideas (do 
you find them relevant, useful, and interesting?), please either reply to 
me here, or mail me off list at john@a...
 
1.)In 1999 Gianni Zorzino wrote an article about using the SAP DCOM 
Connector and the Object Builder to expose SAP functionally to ASP. 
Recently, in a joint effort with Microsoft, SAP has released an SAP .NET 
Connector - this connector bridges the gap between .NET and SAP?s R/3 
server like never before.
The article I would like to write would provide ASP.NET programmers an in-
site into exposing SAP functionality via ASP.NET Webforms. I will focus on 
calling SAP function modules from ASP.NET and most importantly retrieving 
report/result Data from SAP and exposing it via a webform. This can be 
very important for an ASP.NET programmer to provide a web enabled front-
end to their SAP systems.

2.) I would be interested in writing an article about XSD schemas. This 
article would enable a reader to understand XSD Schemas in terms of:
a. What is an XSD Schema
b. Key benefits compared to schemas like XDR
c. How to design an XSD Schema  

3.) Preventing duplicate web page submissions: A serious problem for web 
sites handling customer transactions is that users can use the back button 
and resubmit the transaction leading to duplicate bookings. This article 
suggests an implementation based on the synchronizer pattern to avoid this 
problem. The web page is embedded with an unique token. When the page
is submitted the token will be verified with what was originally sent. The 
transaction will be processed only if they match. A new token will then be 
generated for subsequent transactions.

4.) I would like to propose an article to automate certain maintenance 
tasks with SharePoint Team Services. This version of SharePoint is built 
using SQL Server so in many cases administrative access is not available 
save for a limited client API. I would like to write an article about 
building on that API using Windows Scripting Host(WSH) to be able to 
automate tasks currently only possible through the UI, i.e. using a
browser.

Your opinions can make a difference - let me know what you think.

John

John Richard Chapman
Chief Technical Editor
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Wrox Press Ltd.
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