Chapter 3. Creating a Service-Oriented Application

For the purpose of this book I could have used a simple "Hello World" type application that demonstrated Software Configuration Management with Visual SourceSafe 2005 and Visual Studio .NET 2005. However, I felt the need to give you as much value as possible, given the fact that the development process of building software is rarely so trivial and easy.

So, let's take a more realistic software development scenario. What I am going to build is a room-reservation system for the newly launched Orbital Hotel. As you well know, this is the very first space building, after the International Space Station, used for tourism, allowing people to enjoy a view of our blue planet and stars from their private rooms. OK, OK, the Orbital Hotel doesn't yet exist, but when it does, it must have a room reservation system anyway. Who knows, it might be this one.

I will build a prototype for a hotel reservation system outlining the way Software Configuration Management...