Visual Basic® Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library

COM+ Services

The primary advantage COM+ provides to your application is the capability to share resources. This has a direct, positive impact on the scalability of your system. Whether you are creating applications for managing inventory or facilitating e-commerce, you can take advantage of the COM+ services to ease your burden when creating your middle tier.

Note

This chapter focuses squarely on COM+ as it exists in Windows 2000. Windows XP will introduce new services inside of COM+ 1.5.

Introduction

COM+ handles resource-management tasks such as thread allocation, object pooling, and activation. It provides services for managing security, protecting data, and executing loosely coupled events. These services directly relate to your application's ...