Getting Started with Microsoft Transaction Server

Microsoft® Transaction Server (MTS) is a component-based transaction processing system for developing, deploying, and managing high-performance, scalable, and robust enterprise, Internet, and intranet server applications. MTS defines a programming model for developing distributed, component-based applications. It also provides a run-time infrastructure and a graphical tool for deploying and managing these applications.

This section provides an overview of the new features in MTS, gives a brief tour of the documentation, and contains a glossary of terms. The following topics are contained in this section: