Intended for experienced developers more or Windows administrator responsible for deployment, COM and Components. NET Services provide expert guidance to get the most out of COM + services on the Windows 2000/XP platform, including material on the Internet. NET a new platform. This guide will help you create a state-of-the-art, scalable Windows components that take full advantage of transactions, object pooling, and a large administrative features available in COM +. While Microsoft is to replace COM components with the new standard NET., COM + is still viable technology and will be fully supported (and even enhanced) in the new NET. Framework. Many COM and Components. NET Services concentrates on C + + and Visual Basic examples that explore areas of functionality, plus practical tips for configuring and managing components with tools such as COM + Services Explorer. Expert perspective here will help you design a component that works with COM + effectively. There is good material on COM + transaction here, along with some excellent material on asynchronous components that tap COM + queuing capabilities. The book ends with a long chapter .. NET, which brings this title is currently Microsoft's new programming platform with Dragan - Richard Topics covered: Overview of COM + Components (features and deployment base), COM + context (marshaling and interception), COM + instance management, object pooling, just-in time activation (JITA), COM + transactions, the basics transaction, transaction compensation, two-phase commit and, voice apartments and concurrency, events, neutral apartment threading, APIs to manipulate COM + catalog, security (roles, security programs and trap), queued components (synchronous and asynchronous components), COM + events and Event Services (filtering, distributed and asynchronous events), the code examples in C + + (and Visual Basic 6), NET serviced components, .. NET and API packages to COM + development, the introduction of COM + 1.5 and NET Framework., and guide the administration and programming for COM +.