Designing Applications with Msmq: Message Queuing for Developers

by Alan Dickman

This text focuses on the basics of distributed transactional objects - e-mail for applications. MSMQ works with MTS to connect databases and automate responses to external customers. Microsoft... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201325810
• ISBN13: 9780201325812
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

This book is a must have for all DNA application developers.

Alan Dickman begins where Microsoft left off. This book is for any DNA application designer or developer that is required to have a comprehensive knowledge of the inner workings of MSMQ. Alan covers simple easy to understand samples for both the MSMQ C API and the MSMQ ActiveX objects. Alan also walks you through the architectural points of utilizing MSMQ in the enterprise from a developer's point of view. I would recommend this book to any Microsoft oriented developer.

All MSMQ programmers and architects should own this book

Anyone who wants to understand and use MSMQ should have this book on their bookshelf. Alan has a deep understanding of not only the technology, but also the design patterns behind asynchronous message based application development. An excellent book.

Very comprehensive and helpful

This book is well written, and does not contain a lot of "useless information" just to make it look more complete. Alan has done a good job of providing examples and explains the technology well. I was looking for a specific answer to a problem which I found in the book. When I used the example it didn't work. I emailed Alan and he quickly gave me the solution. Not only a good book, but a very helpful author.

This is a very well written book

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn about MSMQ. I read one other book that covered MSMQ before I had a chance to read this one and it left me disappointed. This book met all of my expectations. Alan clearly knows his subject, and he is able to communicate this in a very organized straightforward manner. This is not a book that just regurgitates the SDK documents. This book clearly teaches the reader how to program an application that uses MSMQ using the kinds of examples I often put together when I am researching a new technology. Alan also covers the architecture and design of an MSMQ application, which many authors of technical books often skip over. I wish all technical books were written this well.

A great contribution

Alan's book should be on the shelf of everybody who's using or even thinking about using MSMQ. It covers all of the key topics in a clear, complete, and very readable way. The book's approach is eminently practical, with useful sections on design issues, security, transactions, and more. And the examples are in both C++ and Visual Basic, making the book useful for all kinds of developers. MSMQ hasn't gotten the attention it deserves-I'm hoping this book will help remedy that.