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COM & .NET Component Services
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COM & .NET Component Services

by Juval Lowy
September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 59m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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COM+ Configured Components

COM+ allows you to import only in-proc (DLL) components. You cannot import COM components that reside in a local server (EXE); COM+ lets you configure the activation type of your application, server, or library. In the case of a library, the client simply loads the original DLL into its process and uses the component. If you configure the application to be a server application, COM+ promotes your original DLL to become a local server by hosting it in a surrogate process of its own. However, COM+ cannot make a library application out of a COM local server. In addition, many COM+ services require explicit process-level administration that the local server’s code simply does not contain.

Once an in-proc component is imported to COM+, it is called a configured component to emphasize the fact that much component functionality and behavior is actually configured and administered outside the component. A classic COM component (be it in-proc or local) that has not been imported into COM+ is called a nonconfigured component. Configured and nonconfigured components can interact freely and call each other’s interfaces. The configured component must reside on a Windows 2000 machine, but the client of a configured component can reside on any Windows-family machine, such as Windows NT, Windows Me, or Windows 9x.

Configuration lets you control the way your application, component, interface, or method behaves under COM+. The COM+ development paradigm lets COM+ manage ...

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