This book provides valuable tour of Microsoft-based technologies on DCOM and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) with a lot of advice to the developer company today. The book begins with the Microsoft Distributed Internet Architecture (DNA) and DNA notion of three-level model to separate business objects for better scalability. The author shows how to use Microsoft Visual Database Tools and methodologies provide a sense of Microsoft software called Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF). Once you learn how to model objects to the database layer and business objects, this book helps you develop by using Visual Basic and Visual C + +. Finally, you learn the presentation layer, which is built using Active Server Pages (ASP) to run within the browser. Final chapters offer additional material on Microsoft tools, such as COM-to-mainframe tools (called COMTI) and Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ).