Services
COM+ services are the things that we today consider to be add-ons to COM. Technology currently found in MTS and MSMQ, for example, make up some of the services found in COM+. Think of services as systems built by Microsoft on top of COM+ designed to somehow add value to component-based development. As we mentioned, some services, such as transactions and queued components, are present thanks to off-the-shelf technology. Consequently, if you have experience with these technologies already, you'll have an advantage as you begin to write COM+ applications. Other services, however, such as object pooling and late-bound-events are probably new to you and might take some getting used to.
Transactions
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