Summary

COM+ offers developers a number of key services. These services are still very much relevant with the advent of .NET and continue to be extended by Microsoft. As you've seen, COM+ is very accessible and makes your job easier. If your application requires you to write scalable and highly available objects, you should consider incorporating COM+ services.

The following are key points of the chapter:

  • COM+ services can increase the scalability of your application and ease the burden of writing resource-management code.

  • To gain the full benefit of COM+, you need to design your objects as stateless.

  • To create a serviced component, you must inherit directly from System.Enterprise.ServicedComponent.

  • To be accessible from other objects, serviced ...

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