This Book Is Not an MTS or a COM Tutorial

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This book is definitely not an MTS or a COM+ tutorial. There are other books for that, and we will be referring to several of them.

No, this book is targeting the new three-letter acronym NAG: need architectural guidance. If it also contains good examples of how to code for COM+ and MTS, which we think it does, you should see that as a bonus.

Although this book isn't a tutorial, we do take you through the design and implementation of a portion of a sample application. As we step through the design and implementation, you'll see the decisions we make, based on the information we have at that stage, and how they affect scalability. We think you'll find this approach realistic and helpful since our steps mimic those of a real software project. We hope you'll enjoy reading this book as much as we enjoyed writing it. We also hope that you'll get from it what we wanted to give you: guidance in designing scalable Windows DNA solutions.