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# Processing Transactions

Transaction processing is an approach to application development that divides all processing into individual units of work, known as transactions. The integration of IIS and Component Services has made it easy to create Web applications that support transaction processing. If you are designing a Web application, you will face several basic design decisions. This section outlines some fundamental design issues, as well as the technology that underlies transactional ASP.

This section contains:

- Designing Transactional Web Applications: Describes the design requirements for transactional Web applications.
- Transaction Processing Technology: Provides information on Component Services and Message Queuing.

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