Summary

In this chapter, we've learned how to work with transactional components: how to create them, how to declare them as transactional, and how to deploy them by using the Transaction Server Explorer or Visual InterDev 6.0.

We've also seen how components can communicate via the context object to signal their completion status and how the context object can be used within a component to access the ASP built-in objects. The context object is a powerful mechanism for working with transactions—it provides a rich set of methods for you to perform the following actions:

• You can declare an object's work complete.
• You can prevent a transaction from being committed.
• You can instantiate other MTS objects and include their work within the scope of the current object's transaction.
• You can retrieve Internet Information Server built-in objects and other important methods.

There's a lot more to discover about Microsoft Transaction Server and the creation and deployment of transactional components within your Visual InterDev Web projects. One of the best ways to learn is to actually use all the products together and experiment with a variety of techniques. You can also run the many code examples included on the CD-ROM accompanying this book.