Chapter 15 - Understanding the MTS Development Environment

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MTS is a service built into Windows NT 4.0 that provides componentbased transaction processing. It provides VB developers with a fairly simple technique to scale existing knowledge of COM components to the enterprise. With MTS, distributed applications can be built for a Windows environment, as well as for the Internet/intranet.

Contents

1. Basic MTS Concepts
   Overview of MTS
   MTS Packages and Their Relationship to COM Components

2. Setting Up MTS
   Configuring a Server to Run MTS
   Installing MTS

3. Setting Up Security on the System Package

4. Working With MTS Packages
   The Package and Deployment Wizard
   Creating a Package by Using the MTS Explorer
   Assigning Names to Packages
   Assign Security to Packages
   Exporting and Importing Existing Packages