This book is intended to discuss architecture and implementation of true three-tier applications with MTS. The book will use both Visual Basic and Visual InterDev as development platforms but the emphasis is always on the VBA/VBScript language. The goal of this book is to help programmer's create applications that use a single set of business objects from both a thin web client and a thin Visual Basic client. The book is divided into four parts that encompass the user services, business services, and data services followed by a final complete project. The four parts of the book include the Data Services Layer, Business Services Layer, User Services Layer, and Project. Topics covered will include: Visual Basic Business Objects, COM/DCOM, Microsoft Transaction Server, Data Access with ADO, Transaction Server API, Transaction Processing, Creating Visual Basic front ends, Using Microsoft Transaction Server with IIS.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1 : The Data Services Layer
- Tiered Architecture and the Microsoft Transaction Server
- Administering MTS
- Designing Components for MTS
Part 2: The Business Services Layer
- Accessing Data from MTS
- Partitioning MTS Applications
- Managing Transactions with MTS
- MTS Security
- Building Custom Data Sources
- MTS and the Internet
- Debugging and Distributing MTS Applications
- Scripting Administration in MTS
- The Microsoft Message Queue
- Interfacing MS Outlook and MTS
Part 3: Projects
- The Data Services Layer Projects
- The Business Services Layer Project
- The User Services Layer Project
Index
