Running and Monitoring the Account Component

Now that you have created the Bank package and installed the Account component in the Microsoft Transaction Server Explorer, you can run the Account component with the Bank client and monitor the component status in the Explorer.

Running your component in MTS brings immediate benefits to your application, even if it doesn't implement any of the MTS APIs. Such benefits include:

• Simplified management of your components though an easy-to-use graphical tool, the MTS Explorer.
  
  
• Location transparencyùthe ability to run your components in-process, locally, or remotely.
  
  
• Thread management and component tracking.
  
  
• Database connection pooling through the Resource Dispenser Manager and the ODBC resource dispenser (automatically provided if you call the ODBC API).

To run and monitor your component

1. In the left pane of the MTS Explorer, click the Components folder where you installed the Bank.Account component.
   
   
2. On the View menu, click Status view to display usage information for the Bank.Account component.
   
   
3. On the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Transaction Server, and then click Bank Client.

   Arrange the windows so that you can see the Bank Client window and the MTS Explorer window simultaneously. The form will default to credit $1 to account number 1.

   

4. In the Bank client, click the Account component.
   
   
5. Click Submit.

   You should see the response Hello from Account.

6. In the Bank client, change the iterations from 1 of 0 to 1 of 100 and click Submit.

   In the right pane of the MTS Explorer, you should see the values under the Objects and Activated columns change to 1 and back to 0.

See Also

Status View, Creating the Bank Package, Installing the Account Component in the Bank Package, Microsoft Transaction Server APIs, Maintaining MTS Packages, Creating a Simple ActiveX Component