Rating: Summary: The supreme book for VB6 with MTS Review: I bought this book couple of months ago, as i needed a solution with vb6, mts, sql server and com...difficult task, i said that to mkyself, only just the names conjunction frighten me. But i read this book, file by file, thinking a bit about what i just have read, i tried some small examples and when i finished the book, what i have to do was clear. the problem was 50% solved. i started developing and also reviewing some chapters. the book is well written, it takes you from the basics of mts, com, sql til complicated matters. there are many examples that can help u better understand it. so, when u need vb and mts, read this book! some improvements could be done, e.g. the chapters treating the transations done with ado objects and very important, the transactions between com objects. though these things, i gave it 5 stars.
Rating: Summary: You'll save your time to understannd MTS Review: I had ever developed some systems with VB(COM), ASP(includes Transactional ASP),but never MTS. I got a job to develope Web Application after that time. I decided to use WindowsNT4 as an OS and VB6 as a programing tool,becase the term of developping it was so short. I begun to read this book, while I wondered whether I should use MTS or not.But there was no need to wonder. So easy and so quickly,I could understand that how I should implement MTS application and how I shoud manage MMC. I removed business logic from asp scripts and implemented as MTS Compornents. Anyway,this book and MTS helped me to design the system using Model-View-Controller pattern and develope it with smartness(easy to maintenance) and with no delay.
Rating: Summary: The best MTS book available Review: In my opioion, Professional MTS VB Programming is the best MTS book on the market. I have purchased several books on MTS and find that this book is the only book that does more than a satisfactory job in covering both theory and hands on. Briefly, this book takes a beginner by explaining the basics of COM and leads the reader through the ins & outs of MTS. Many advanced topics are covered including an awsome section regarding debugging and administration. Don't get the wrong idea, I have been working with MTS for over 3 years, and as a seasoned MTS developer, I learned many new techniques. Simply this book is for both the beginner and the advanced programmer who wants to "really" learn the ins & outs of MTS. Because this is a very comprehensive book, the best advice I can give you is for you to try it yourself!
Rating: Summary: An Exhaustive Treatment of the Subject Review: Matt Bortniker has written a great reference! Every facet of the subject is well laid out with relevant examples (the only bothersome aspect of this is having to go out to the web and download them). Some of the chapters include: MTS and the Distributed Environment Introducing MTS Explorer COM and MTS Architecture Transaction Processing Designing MTS Components and Interfaces Building MTS Components Managing Components and Packages Implementing Security (a real biggy for me) Debugging MTS Components (another tricky subject, well covered) Administration Data Services and MTS MTS and the Internet COM+ Also included are a complete application (Sales Order App) and an MTS type library reference (this was really nice to have). Downsides: No CD-ROM and they really squashed the print in tight in some places. Everything is well laid out and explained clearly. I have found this to be one of my more used COM books. A nice index rounds out the whole package. Well worth the purchase price. A must have if you plan on learning intermediate to advanced topics in VB and MTS.
Rating: Summary: An Exhaustive Treatment of the Subject Review: Matt Bortniker has written a great reference! Every facet of the subject is well laid out with relevant examples (the only bothersome aspect of this is having to go out to the web and download them). Some of the chapters include: MTS and the Distributed Environment Introducing MTS Explorer COM and MTS Architecture Transaction Processing Designing MTS Components and Interfaces Building MTS Components Managing Components and Packages Implementing Security (a real biggy for me) Debugging MTS Components (another tricky subject, well covered) Administration Data Services and MTS MTS and the Internet COM+ Also included are a complete application (Sales Order App) and an MTS type library reference (this was really nice to have). Downsides: No CD-ROM and they really squashed the print in tight in some places. Everything is well laid out and explained clearly. I have found this to be one of my more used COM books. A nice index rounds out the whole package. Well worth the purchase price. A must have if you plan on learning intermediate to advanced topics in VB and MTS.
Rating: Summary: Not Really Professional Review: Somehow, this book, doesn't really warrant a Professional Tag to it, I was expecting a more exhaustive treatment of MTS particularly in improving performance. Which is very important when it comes to developing in ASP and VB COM. The author treated this area rather trivially, glancing through the topic with some minor tips that any God fearing vb programmer already knows. Rename it as Beginning VB 6 MTS programming and it will really fit my expectations as the author pretty much touched the surfaces of MTS on a very broad basis. The book will be really beneficial though for folks who's been programming in VB6 client and moving towards COM developement. Do hope that wrox can come up with a very 'PROFESSIONAL' book on ASP, VBCOM and MTS to tackle topics like program design and performance.
Rating: Summary: Just what I needed Review: The only regret I have is that I took a class and read another book before I picked up this book. This book covered everything I needed to know to get started writing MTS applications. And this is a first for a computer reference book, it was easy to read. Wrox's web site is very useful too. Full code examples for easy download and a message center for communicating with other programmers. In this case, this book was just what I needed.
Rating: Summary: A good book Review: This book covers most of the topics of the MTS programming. In real world applications using this products I think you probably need to deepen in each aspect of the book. I believe that this book is recommended for people who have some knowledge of Visual Basic and Windows programming, not for beginners in this fields.
Rating: Summary: Excellent Reference Review: This is an excellent Book. I have bought this book almost a year ago, and this book is one of the few books that I was encouraged to finish it from cover to cover. I did not only benefit from it getting to know Microsoft Transaction Server (since I never got the chance in real life to develop an application that uses it), but it teaches you how to think logically and usefully to utilize the latest technologies in the most efficient manner. It was my first real encounter with multier technology, and it was the book that encouraged me to change my application development from the ASP tier to the VB COM tier. Finally, the examples presented was very helpful
Rating: Summary: A Very Worthwhile Book that I Got a Lot From Review: This is an excellent book. It is not for a beginner, however. If you need an introduction to MTS, then try out Wrox's other MTS book, "MTS MSMQ with VB and ASP" (what a great title), which is also excellent and gives a higher level introductory view. I read the MTS MSMQ book and immediately ordered this book for the more advanced material. It's not rocket science, however, and I don't know why a previous reviewer had so much trouble with it. The book does assume that you are already familiar with objects, VB, databases, etc. If you are a total beginner, don't start here. Try Peter Wright's "Beginning" Wrox books, which do a good job of getting you up to speed on the basics. I gave this book four stars rather than five for two reasons: one, I actually learned a lot more about the proper way to use MTS from a series of articles on vb2themax.com--alost none of this in-the-trenches material was included in this book. The second reason was that I wished that the book had more theory to go along with the excellent nuts-and-bolts material. What I mean is that there is plenty of great coverage here of how MTS works, how the distributed processing and transaction management works, how to set up and adminster MTS, plus good chapters on security, debugging, and COM+. I wish, however, that there was more material discussing the design considerations for stateless objects and MTS class design at a system level. This is not to say that there is none of this material--there is, I just wanted more. If you are already good at conceiving class designs and hierarchies, then transitioning to the stateless paradigm should not be too painful. One other quibble: somehow the terms "object" and "class" have been suplanted by the term "component". A component is not an object, and vice versa, but now the terminology has become so bastardized that all these terms are interchangeable. This is less the fault of this book and more the fault of Microsoft for calling objects "components" within MTS itself. Imagine Microsoft confusing things by muddying the vocabulary waters... Despite my quibbles, as I said this is an excellent book for an experienced VB programmer who needs to learn most of the ins and outs of MTS. I have not encountered a better MTS book.
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