Programming COM+ and Other Component-Based Services

In order to master just about any new component-based service on the Windows platform, you must answer the following three questions:

  • What are the classes and interfaces exposed?

  • How does the service typically interact with applications?

  • How does the service integrate with external services?

These questions have increasingly complex answers in most cases. This is true with COM+. Discovering the COM+ classes and their respective interfaces is often as simple as scanning through all the methods and properties in the help system and then boning up on the calls that are important to your endeavor. It is a far more three-dimensional affair to understand the object instance scenarios a service employs ...

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