Professional MTS and Msmq with VB and ASP

This book is by far the best I've read in a long time. It is apparent that the authors themselves knows whats important to focus on regarding development using IIS, MTS and or MSMQ. If you have planning to or already are working in a internet/intranet/mts project this book is it. And it's a book for developers, not for administrators as some of the reviewers seems to think. Recommended!

This book should be titled Microsoft Distributed interNet Applications. I purchased this book when it was first released; it was full of errors. I also quickly discovered that it did not cover MTS/MSMQ in-depth, but gave the over all picture of where they fit into the scheme of DNA. Nevertheless, it is a must have for DNA developers and technical managers... until something better comes along!

This book is great in that it presents technical material in an easy-to-understand way. It is not hard to follow but still goes very in-depth into the workings of MTS, VB, and MSMQ. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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.

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.