Professional Visual Basic 6 M Ts Programming

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 EnvironmentIntroducing MTS ExplorerCOM and MTS ArchitectureTransaction ProcessingDesigning MTS Components and InterfacesBuilding MTS ComponentsManaging Components and PackagesImplementing Security (a real biggy for me)Debugging MTS Components (another tricky subject, well covered)AdministrationData Services and MTSMTS and the InternetCOM+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.

You Must Read this Book if you really want to understand MTS using VB6.I have been a Software Engineer for over 8 years and I believe this is the most authoritative and complete book of its kind. The author does an excellent job explaining the architecture for COM and MTS. I particularly found the sections about transaction processing, security, and debugging MTS to be extremely helpful. Each of these sections goes much deeper in theory with clear explanations than several books on the same subjects combined.OK, let me make this clear: As the book's title "Professional" suggests, this book is not for a beginner. It's my opinion that unless you are at least an intermediate VB programmer who understands basic COM concepts, this book is not for you - buy a beginner's book. If you have solid VB skills and you want to enhance them by learning MTS, I highly recommend you read this book. Study and learn from it (yes, it takes effort- no fast ticket to knowledge.) It will be worth it.I would give this book 10 stars if I could.

First of all, this book assumes good knowledge of VB. Once you have that, it guides you well to MTS programming and administering. The author did a great job in explaining some internals of COM and MTS, without going too low level for VB programmers. It is not a easy subject and I find it confusing in most other books that talk about COM. The part that talks about transaction programming is great too. It is nice that the books also briefly cover MS DTC and COM+.My only complain is: the example, or case study given in the book is too simple to be useful. MOst other books from Wrox give more sophisticated and very practical case study. However that won't stop me from giving 5 starts

This is an awesome book! The author has done an incredible job explaining COM/MTS theory and providing detailed discussions with examples on how to develop Enterprise applications using MTS technology. Although this is an advanced book (you should know the basics of COM), the author presents details in such a manor that a programmer at any level should be able to comprehend. This book not only has answered many questions I have been trying to find answers to, it has prevented me from making many programming mistakes. I give this book top marks. If only other books were written so well and so complete.

I have worked with MTS (using both Visual C++ and Visual Basic) for the last eight months, and I haven't found a better resource than this! I thought I knew MTS, but the author really helped my understanding increase 10-fold. This book is not a primer on transaction processing (there are better books for that, e.g. Principles of Transaction Processing). This book is not a primer on COM, but the author does a good job of covering the basics from a VB perspective. This book is a very practical hands-on look at the MTS explorer, development for the MTS environment, and MTS debugging. The chapter on debugging MTS is the best I have ever seen -- he points out the different ways of using VB to debug and the pitfalls, plus ways to debug using VC++ when VB doesn't do the job! This book is more for the intermediate to expert developer, but a beginner to MTS should come up to speed quickly. What can I say; this book is excellent! Buy it now!