Demonstrates how to construct a complete electronic commerce application. Wallace, a computer programmer and consultant, begins by presenting the basics of the component object model (COM), the ActiveX template library (ATL), the Microsoft foundation classes (MFC), Microsoft transaction server (MTS), and ActiveX data objects (ADO), then explains how to create MTS components in both ATL and MFC. Using the MTS explorer and putting MTS components on the internet are also covered. The CD-ROM contains third-party utilities and trial versions of Borland tools. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR