Examining the Tutorial Solution
In Solution Explorer, you should see two projects: Tutorial and Weather. The Tutorial project contains files for the Tutorial instance of Notification Services. The Weather project contains files for the Weather application. The Tutorial instance hosts the Weather application.
Tutorial Project
First, expand the Tutorial project and expand the Miscellaneous folder. The Tutorial project contains only one file, TutorialICF.xml. This file describes the Tutorial instance of Notification Services.
Weather Project
Next, examine the Weather project. This project contains files used to update and run the Weather application and to review database changes after performing some tutorial lessons.
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The Queries folder contains Transact-SQL queries that you will later use to review database changes and submit events to the Weather application.
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The Miscellaneous folder contains four files:
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WeatherADF.xml is an application definition file (ADF). This file contains XML code that describes the Weather application. Most of the tutorial involves editing this file.
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WeatherTransform.xslt is an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT). The Weather application's XSLT content formatter uses the code in this file to transform raw notification data into formatted notifications.
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AddSubscribers.vbs is a VBScript file used to add subscribers to the instance of Notification Services. Typically, you would build a subscription management interface using managed code, but this script is a quick way to load subscriber and subscription data for prototyping.
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AddSubscriptions.vbs is a VBScript file used to add subscriptions to the Weather application. Again, script files like this are used primarily for prototyping.