While the authors provide background on important standards such as COM + to build middle-level components, this book is anchored with a real hands-on examples (and many screen shots, if appropriate) to use tools such as Visual Basic and SQL Server 2000. First, this book takes you through a discussion of the latest developments and tools from Microsoft (such as COM +, SQL Server 2000, and SOAP to communicate in a distributed system). (There is also an e-commerce application to lease construction equipment.) The book also walks you through the implementation of database back-end, mid-level COM + components, and browser-based front end built with ASP. at least until a new one. NET Framework Microsoft On arrival, every system architect or developer can rely on these titles to get a sense of how to build effective software for enterprise Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: Introduction to Windows Distributed Internet Architecture (DNA) for the History of the development of a monolithic enterprise, client / server, and n-tier architecture of DNA Preview Microsoft's tools and components (including support for clustering and server side tools) vs. DNA. NET Frameworks The benefits of DNA for the Introduction of the company for COM component development (including IDL, IUnknown, and GUID) a summary distributed processing (basic sockets, RPC, and components), COM + and DCOM basics Designing middle-tier business objects with the COM ( UI vs.. business logic) COM + transaction and security context of COM + COM + COM + catalog VB programming DTC distributed transaction components and resource managers compensation (CRMS), Microsoft Message Queue processing (MSMQ) and asynchronous COM + queued component COM + Events and callback events (publishers, subscribers, and filtering) vs. Object Primer on SOAP Web services and XML Universal Data Access (UDA) (including ODBC, OLE DB, ADO, and RDS) SQL Server 2000 (including New XML support) Active Directory (and ADSI programming) Thin and rich clients (including terminal-based, HTML, and thick clients) Introduction to Active Server Pages (ASP) for Web front ends ActiveX control Scripting Office 2000 application performance and scalability guidelines, and Windows DNA 2000 Introduction to cryptography and certificate security Debugging Case Study tips for the application of DNA samples companies