If you're thinking of powering your next Web site with the latest in Microsoft Internet technologies, and you program in Visual Basic (VB), then Professional MTS and MSMQ with VB and ASP is for you. This fast-paced tutorial gives you a crash course in using Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and the new Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) Server, along with other Microsoft tools, for creating dynamic, commerce-enabled Web sites and Web-based applications. The authors provide a step-by-step guide to configuring and designing with VBScript, active server pages (ASPs) using transactions, and the new capabilities of message queuing (which permits systems to be designed with fault tolerance in mind.) Readable and to the point, this guide will likely be all you need for getting the basics of the best in designing Web sites using Microsoft's latest Web tools.
Review
The Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS), Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ), and specification for the Universal Data Access (UDA) are Microsoft's proposals for defining a distributed, Internet-based framework known as the "Distributed Internet Architecture" (DNA). Professional MTS and MSMQ with VB and ASP, by Alex Homer and David Sussman, presents a reasonable explanation of how you can leverage DNA to build the Internet applications of the near future.
What I liked about Professional MTS and MSMQ is the authors' ability to smooth all the difficulty of the subject. Reading the book makes using MTS and MSMQ seem simple. Granted, MTS/MSMQ is not that difficult, but the authors still do a good job presenting the topics incrementally, making each the natural follow-up of the previous one... Read more from this review. --Dino Esposito, Dr. Dobb's Journal -- Dr. Dobb's Journal
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