MTS Programming With Visual Basic - Softcover

Hillier, Scot

9780672314254: MTS Programming With Visual Basic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0672314258 ISBN 13: 9780672314254

Publisher: Sams, 1999

Written by two industry experts who also run one of the largest Visual Basic training courses, "VB Bootcamp", this title shows readers how to create VB business objects using Microsoft Transaction Server. The CD-ROM includes code from the projects in the book and tools from third-party vendors.

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Review:

Stressing hands-on development, MTS Programming with Visual Basic serves as a valuable introduction to using Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) for the enterprise developer. This book sets a new standard by providing over a dozen detailed hands-on exercises using Microsoft tools such as Visual Basic, MTS Explorer, and the Visual Modeler. (To understand distributed computing on the Microsoft platform, you'll need to combine these tools reliably.)

After looking at today's three-tiered architectures and MTS, author Scot Hillier examines Microsoft tools (such as SQL Server 7, IIS 4, and Visual Studio 98) that work together on the enterprise. After a simple exercise with Visual Modeler, Hillier covers MTS Explorer, which permits administration of MTS-enabled objects.

Next the author provides some tips for designing MTS components in Visual Basic (including the ObjectContext and threads). A useful hands-on exercise lets you build a simple MTS object. The book proceeds with coverage of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) for connecting to databases with MTS objects (including efficient "firehose" cursors). Subsequent chapters look at the advantages of polymorphism for VB class design, database transactions, and MTS security issues.

The book reviews Active Server Pages (ASP) basics to get you to the Internet and follows with information on deploying and debugging MTS-based applications (including an exercise with the Visual Studio Analyzer tool). After looking at the Windows Scripting Host and Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ), the book closes with an excellent case study for a three-tiered, browser-based ATM bank application. The exercise here walks through the design and implementation of this application using all relevant Microsoft tools. This sample alone can justify the cost of this excellent book, which provides a real-world introduction to enterprise development using MTS. --Richard Dragan

About the Author:

Daniel Mezick is the Q&A columnist for VBPJ and has been teaching VB since 1993 for New Technology Solutions. He is the founder of the Connecticut VB Special Interest Group and a member of the Microsoft TECH-ED Advisory Council. He has taught thousands fo new VB developers. He serves as the Regional Director of Microsoft Developer Days in the Northeast region. Scot Hillier is the Microsoft Developer Days Regional Driector in Hartford, CT and the author of Inside VB Script. He has taught thousands of new VB developers at the VB Bootcamp seminar. Scot is a feature writer for VBPJ.

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