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Professional MTS and MSMQ Programming with VB and ASP (Wrox Professional Series) Hardcover – May 1, 1998

by Alex Homer (Author), David Sussman (Author)

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Microsoft are promoting their Distributed interNet Architecture (DNA) as a platform for developing fully distributed applications, but it has taken a while to get the DNA message across. The difficulty was in trying to push DNA as a solution in itself, rather that pushing the ideas that make it good, i.e.:n-tier client/server applications~Client transparency~Distributed applications~Fully transactional~Fault tolerant~The core of DNA is the use of business objects in a middle tier of the application, and this is supported by two new technologies: Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS), which is a component manager offering full transaction support; and Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ), which provides the fault-tolerance required in distributed application. Together, these make it simple to build into the DNA dream.

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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.

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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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Series: Professional
Hardcover: 493 pages
Publisher: Apress; 1st edition (May 1, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1861001460
ISBN-13: 978-1861001467
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 19 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,470,318 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #9472 in Books > Computers & Technology > Web Development & Design > Web Design
- #12224 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Software Design, Testing & Engineering > Software Development

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BCornell

Much better than average

December 19, 1998

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The MTS examples/explanations are solid and don't cut corners. MSMQ probably needs a 1K page book in its own right, but this serves as a good introduction.

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No experience necessary!!!

February 13, 1999

Format: Hardcover

I developed C++/Delphi client/server applications for years, but never had any Visual Basic or COM experience. Within an hour, I had my first 3-tier VB6 application up-and-running connected to our DB server using MTS-enabled COM components. The material is entry-level--I highly recommend "Programming Distributed Applications With COM and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0" (Ted Pattison/MS Press) for a more detailed look. These two books are perfect companions and are all you'll need for writing DNS applications using VB, COM/DCOM, MTS, and MSMQ.

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A Bogus Book to learn the concepts of MTS!!

August 3, 1999

Format: Hardcover

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"

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Yoblight

Lacking in depth, poorly edited

August 26, 1999

Format: Hardcover

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".

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jeff@xteam.com

A book not worth purchasing

January 18, 1999

Format: Hardcover

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.

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A customer

Clear, concise and well-written

October 6, 1998

Format: Hardcover

If you are a developer trying to make sense of MTS and MSMQ and want to learn how to integrate these technologies into either VB apps or with web sites using ASP, then this book is for you. The book features good technical information on the technlogies themselves and also include a automobile ordering system example that uses MTS and MSQM. The only downside of the book is that they make too much of Microsoft specific browser technologies such as IE's RDS component and certain DHTML that won't work in other browsers. This doesn't detract from their coverage of MTS and MSMQ, but it seemed they went a bit overboard at times promoting non-compatible Microsoft browser technologies. Overall, an excellent book that will fully explain the secrets of MTS and MSMQ.

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Stacy Draper

Outstanding!!

October 12, 1998

Format: Hardcover

Of all the books that I have ever read this one has got to be the most helpful! Nothing is untouched the authors explain every option in great detail. This doesn't mean that it is a slow moving book! There are to the point and move along quickly. The examples in the book are great. You can do them or not and you still don't loose track of what they are talking about. On wrox.com they have a zip file with all the code. I found this to be quite useful as well.

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Jamie Vachon

Professional? Maybe - Useful? Definitely

December 16, 1999

Format: Hardcover

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.

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