Chapter 3. COM Internals

At this point, those of you developing in Visual Basic and VJ++ have enough basic understanding to move forward into COM+ services and begin the in-depth exploration of these topics. Discussion of these services begins in Chapter 6, " The COM+ Catalog." This section is intended for C++ developers and for VB/VJ++ developers who are interested in seeing COM in its truest form, mainly its C++ implementation. Understanding COM at this level will give you some insight into how COM+ evolved into its present form and why it has the strengths and limitations that it does. Arguably, this chapter deals specifically with the internals of COM and not COM+, though I feel that making this distinction is rather like saying that a study ...

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