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8 Optionally, use Autodesk MapGuide SDF Component Toolkit to develop
applications that allow you to modify your spatial data files (SDFs) by edit-
ing, deleting, or adding geographic features from the browser.
Overall Strategy
Setting up Autodesk MapGuide and developing an application is much like
cooking: rather than working on one task at a time, you need to work on
several of them at once, going back and forth between the tasks as needed.
This section uses this approach and outlines the best strategy for setting up
Autodesk MapGuide and developing applications. The process includes three
main phases: installation and testing, planning and design, and
implementation.
The following sections describe these phases. For more information about
the second phase, planning and design, see Chapter 3, “Designing Your
System.”
Phase One: Installation and Testing
This phase involves installing and testing all of the components to make sure
that your system is ready. You can take two approaches to this phase. The first
approach is to read through Chapter 3, “Designing Your System,” to deter-
mine exactly how you want to set up your system before you install. The
other approach is to do a basic installation to get an idea of how everything
works together and make sure it all works properly, and then use that knowl-
edge in Phase Two when you plan and design your complete Autodesk
MapGuide application. In either case, the data and map layer you create in
this phase should be very basic and for testing purposes only.
To install and test the components
1 Install your web server and web browser, and then type your web server
URL in the web browser to make sure that the browser is communicating
with the web server.
2 Create OLE DB data sources for your attribute data, and then test them
with Access, Excel, or another database application to make sure that you
can access the data through the OLE DB data source names you created. If
you are not sure which attribute data you will be using yet, skip this step
for now and return to it during Phase Three when you create your data.