What Is COM+?

Microsoft is positioning COM+ as one of the main reasons to upgrade from NT to Windows 2000 because of the role COM+ plays in letting you build bigger and better applications. In this section, you will learn what COM+ is. A sample project demonstrates how to use COM+ to create and use a component. Later in this chapter, you will see how you can control who can access this COM+ component with COM+ security.

COM+'s Ancestry: COM/DCOM

COM is a Microsoft acronym for Component Object Model. COM is a programming model for packaging software running on the Windows family of operating systems. The term programming model is used merely to indicate that COM consists of two distinct parts.

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While COM began as a Windows technology, its ...

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