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Summary: Professional? Maybe - Useful? Definitely
Review: 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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Summary: Great introduction to MTS and MSMQ
Review: 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!
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Summary: Great introduction to MTS and MSMQ
Review: 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!
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Summary: Great book.
Review: If you like examples and short concise descriptions this is the book for you. There are some typos, but overall is a great book. If you want history and philosophy try the MS Press books.
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Summary: Excellent book for someone to come up to speed with MSMQ&MTS
Review: If you want to be and running in a couple of weeks with MSMQ and MTS, this is the book you are looking for. The book has lot of examples in VB and helps you understand the concepts behind MSMQ and MTS. The book however does not go in detail over how you set up your message queues. In the next edition I would like to see some Visual C++/J++ examples. Overall, a good book and worth the money!
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Summary: Lacking in depth, poorly edited
Review: 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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Summary: yes!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: it made my teeth num
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Summary: Outstanding!!
Review: 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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Summary: A Bogus Book to learn the concepts of MTS!!
Review: 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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Summary: Much better than average
Review: 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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