Runtime
You can think of the COM+ runtime a as essentially the COM you already know and love. The COM+ runtime is comprised of all the various COM API functions (you know, all those functions that start with Co…) and the underlying code that makes those functions go. The runtime handles things like object creation and lifetime, marshaling, proxies, memory management, and all the other low-level things that make up the foundation of COM+. In order to support many of the nifty services you just learned about, Microsoft has added a number of new features to the COM+ runtime, including configured components, a registration database, the promotion of the contexts concept, and a new neutral threading model.
Registration Database (RegDB)
In COM, the ...
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