COM+ and Security

You now know how to create and use COM+ components. COM+ components support what is called attribute-based programming. This new paradigm allows you to create a component and then decide what COM+ services that component will use. You can make these choices after you have built the component. For example, you can decide whether a component supports or requires transactions. You can also decide whether a component requires security. In addition to this attribute-based programming, you can programmatically control who can access your component.

Introducing MTS/COM+ Security

Many applications, both Client/Server and Web-based, work with sensitive information. If the application is a Web store-front, then the sensitive information ...

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