Microsoft Technologies

Microsoft Corporation. "Windows DNA: Building Windows Applications for the Internet Age." White paper, October 1998: http://www.microsoft.com/dna /overview/dnawp.asp.

Microsoft Developer Network Online: http://msdn.microsoft.com/developer /default.htm.

Microsoft SiteBuilder Network: http://www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder/.

Microsoft SiteBuilder Network Workshop: http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/default.asp.

Microsoft Windows DNA home page: http://www.microsoft.com/dna/default.asp.

Microsoft Windows NT Server home page: http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/default.asp.

Components

Box, Don. Essential COM. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1998. ISBN 0201634465.

Box, Don, et al. Effective COM Programming: 50 Ways to Improve Your COM and MTS-Based Applications. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1999. ISBN 0201379686.

Brockschmidt, Kraig. Inside OLE. 2^nd ed. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1995. ISBN 1556158432.

Chappell, David. Understanding ActiveX and OLE. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1996. ISBN 1572312165.

Eddon, Guy, and Henry Eddon. Inside Distributed COM. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1998. ISBN 157231849X.

Egremont, Carlton. Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1998. ISBN 0201485362.

Grimes, Richard. Professional ATL COM Programming. Olton, Birmingham, U.K.: Wrox Press, 1998. ISBN 1861001401.

Grimes, Richard T., et al. Beginning ATL COM Programming. Wrox Press, 1998. ISBN 1861000111.

Grimes, Richard T. Professional DCOM Programming. Wrox Press, 1997. ISBN 186100060X.

Lhotka, Rockford. Professional Visual Basic 5.0 Business Objects. Olton, Birmingham, U.K.: Wrox Press, 1997. ISBN 186100043X.

Microsoft COM home page: http://www.microsoft.com/com/default.asp.

Pinnock, Jonathan. Professional DCOM Application Development. Olton, Birmingham, U.K.: Wrox Press, 1998. ISBN 1861001312.

Rector, Brent, and Chris Sells. ATL Internals. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1999. ISBN 0201695898.

Redmond, Frank E., III. DCOM: Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model. Foster City, Calif.: IDG Books Worldwide, 1997. ISBN 0764580442.

Rogerson, Dale. Inside COM. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1997. ISBN 1572313498.

Sessions, Roger. COM and DCOM: Microsoft's Vision for Distributed Objects. New York: Wiley Computer Press, 1998. ISBN 047119381X.

Stafford, Paul. "Writing Microsoft Transaction Server Components in Java." White paper, May 1997. MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/developer/news/feature/010598/mts/mtssummary2.htm.

Database Technologies

Bath, Kamaljit. "Remote Data Service in MDAC 2.0." White paper, July 1998: http://msdn.microsoft.com/developer/news/feature/datajul98/remdata.htm.

Hussey, Peter. "Designing Efficient Applications for Microsoft SQL Server." MSDN, PDC 1997 conference paper: http://www.microsoft.com/data/reference/wp2/designingappssql_4jzm.htm.

Lazar, David. "Microsoft Strategy for Universal Data Access." White paper, October 1997: http://www.microsoft.com/data/udastra.htm.

Microsoft Data Access home page: http://www.microsoft.com/data.

Microsoft SQL Server home page: http://www.microsoft.com/sql.

Scott, Tony. "Microsoft SQL Server Optimization and Tuning." MSDN.

Soukup, Ron. Inside Microsoft SQL Server 6.5. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1997. ISBN 1572313315.

Vaughn, William R. Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server. 6^th ed. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1998. ISBN 1572318481.

Internet Technologies

Cluts, Nancy Winnick. "Maximizing the Performance of Your Active Server Pages." White paper, March 1998: http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/server/asp/maxperf.asp.

Fleet, Dina, et al. Teach Yourself Active Web Database Programming in 21 Days. Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams, 1997. ISBN 1575211394.

Francis, Brian, et al. Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0. Olton, Birmingham, U.K.: Wrox Press. ISBN 1861001347.

Francis, Brian, et al. Professional Active Server Pages 2.0. Olton, Birmingham, U.K.: Wrox Press, 1998. ISBN 1861001266.

Isaacs, Scott. Inside Dynamic HTML. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1997. ISBN 1572316861.

Microsoft Scripting Technologies home page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting.

Microsoft SiteBuilder Network DHTML, HTML, and CSS home page: http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/c-frame.htm#/workshop/author/default.asp.

Microsoft SiteBuilder Network Server Technologies home page: http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/c-frame.htm#/workshop/server/default.asp.

Moore, Mike. "Tuning Internet Information Server Performance." White paper, October 1997: http://www.microsoft.com/isn/techcenter/tuningIIS.asp.

Stephenson, Michael, et al. "IIS 4.0 Tuning Parameters for High-Volume Sites." White paper, March 1998: http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/server/feature/tune.asp.

Middleware Technologies (MTS, MSMQ, COMTI)

Dickman, Alan. Designing Applications with MSMQ: Message Queuing for Developers. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1998. ISBN 0201325810.

Gray, Steven D., and Rick A. Lievano. Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0. Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams, 1997. ISBN 0672311305.

Homer, Alex, and David Sussman. Professional MTS and MSMQ Programming with VB and ASP. Olton, Birmingham, U.K.: Wrox Press, 1998. ISBN 1861001460.

Houston, Peter. "Building Distributed Applications with Message Queuing Middleware." White paper, 1998.

Houston, Peter. "Integrating Applications with Message Queuing Middleware." White paper, 1998.

Mills, Angela. "Using Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0 with COM Transaction Integrator 1.0." White paper, January 1998: http://www.microsoft.com/com/wpaper/com_mtscomti.asp.

Microsoft MSMQ home page: http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/appservice/.

Microsoft SNA Server home page: http://www.microsoft.com/sna/.

Microsoft Windows NT Server white papers page: http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/techdetails/.

Windows and Presentation Layer Programming

Armstrong, Tom. Designing and Using ActiveX Controls. New York: M&T Books, 1997. ISBN 1558515038.

Blaszczak, Mike. Professional MFC with Visual C++ 5. Olton, Birmingham, U.K.: Wrox Press, 1997. ISBN 1861000146.

Denning, Adam. ActiveX Controls: Inside Out. 2^nd ed. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1997. ISBN 1572313501.

McKinney, Bruce. Hardcore Visual Basic. 2^nd ed. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1997. ISBN 1572314222.

Petzold, Charles. Programming Windows 95. 5^th ed. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1998. ISBN 157231995X.

Rector, Brent E., and Joseph M. Newcomer. Win32 Programming. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN 0201634929.

Richter, Jeffrey. Advanced Windows. 3^rd ed. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1997. ISBN 1572315482.

Shepherd, George, and Scot Wingo. MFC Internals: Inside the Microsoft Foundation Class Architecture. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0201407213.