101 Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET Applications

Application #91. Create an Enterprise Services Component

This topic can be considered part one of a two-part series on building a simple Enterprise Services component. We assume that you have a basic understanding of COM+, or Enterprise Services as it is referred to in the .NET Framework. Therefore, this topic focuses on the steps required to build an Enterprise Services component.

At the outset, it’s important to clarify some terminology. From the perspective of managed code, the term application takes on its traditional meaning. Also from this perspective, the term serviced component means a component that uses COM+ Services. Thus, for this topic, there is a Windows Forms application (that does not use COM+ directly), which consumes a serviced ...