Customer Reviews

Professional MTS and MSMQ Programming with VB and ASP (Wrox Professional Series)

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If you are new to MTS and MSMQ (which a good number of organizations are), this is a great place to start. Even after a year and a half of MTS/MSMQ programming, I still refer to this book every once in a while for helpful tips and hints. Unfortunately, though, I don't consider it a professional level book. Amidst all of the code samples and screen shots, real technical information is missing. So, if you're looking to get into MTS and MSMQ programming, this book can get you on the right track, but if you're an experienced developer make sure you obtain other resources.

This book should never have included MSMQ in the title. It is mostly an MTS book; from 1998. MTS is now part of COM+ and while most of the concepts have survived, the implementation is different.

Don't buy it. You can get everything you need out a fifteen minute browse in your local bookstore.

If you are unfamiliar with MTS and MSMQ, this is a great introduction to both technologies. Once you've read this book, you'll understand the big picture and be ready to delve into the details. Good example code, and well written. It's a real page turner.

Only minor quibble is a few minor production issues. For example, in my copy, there's a sticker on one page to cover up the typos!

In addition to the extremely poor editing that seems to be common to many WROX books, I find that this book lacks information in many basic areas in MTS and MSMQ, for example there is not a single entry in the index regarding the shared property manager. Most other books I have seen that even survey MTS at least mention the SPM. It also has no information regarding regarding performance issues (that I can find, there is no entry in the index).

Some chapters are OK, but overall the depth is lacking.

I would consider this a fair introduction, but "professional" it is not. I would give it a better review if it was called "Beginning".

The Book's title of being PROFESSIONAL is a misnomer. The book only teaches how to implement a very simple car selling program. It convieniently misses the details involved in transaction level programming.

When I bought a book on "professional" MTS programmming I expected some tips on writing better faster and more complicated applications. I learnt more of VB than MTS from this book.

Professionals can read " 50 ways to improve your COM and MTS applications"

For every topic, it just outline the subject without going to the detail. You can't possibly get anything out of this book.

I'm generally very happy with WROX books, but this one fails in a number of categories if you are looking for detailed information about MSMQ.

There is very little discussion about MSMQ from a network perspective. It doesn't address how to setup MSMQ in an enterprise environment -- PECs vs. BSC vs. IC, etc. There are lots of code samples, but most of them focus on the non-MSMQ DNA aspects of distributed programming. The example architecture is also simplistic to the point of not being usable in a real environment. A client-VB app running as the interactive user on a destination machine is less than desirable.

The authors also missed a number of details -- the error handling isn't even right. In VB, code is not executed past an Err.Raise call.

A dissapointing book from an otherwise impressive publisher.

This book is by far the best I've read in a long time. It is apparent that the authors themselves knows whats important to focus on regarding development using IIS, MTS and or MSMQ. If you have planning to or already are working in a internet/intranet/mts project this book is it. And it's a book for developers, not for administrators as some of the reviewers seems to think. Recommended!

This book gives you an idea why you would want to use MTS and MSMQ, and how to use it. However, it doesn't discuss the intricacies of managing and designing MTS and MSMQ servers. It's a good intro, but definitely not your last book on MTS and MSMQ.

This book is great in that it presents technical material in an easy-to-understand way. It is not hard to follow but still goes very in-depth into the workings of MTS, VB, and MSMQ. I thoroughly enjoyed it.