COM+ Unleashed provides a complete understanding of how to build and implement COM components, focusing on using COM+. This book shows you how to build COM objects and encapsulate their functionality, use distributed COM to build client/server and Web-based enterprise applications, and enhance applications with distributed services (MTS, MSMQ). You'll also see how to fully utilize the COM+ model to enhance productivity and to create highly flexible and powerful applications and encapsulate business logic into COM objects. You'll learn how to apply the COM+ model creatively and effectively to...

COM+ is Microsoft¿s new version of its COM object-oriented programming framework. Built into Windows 2000, this is an extremely powerful and complex technology that consolidates the features of a number of existing Microsoft tools: OLE, ActiveX, DCOM, Microsoft Message Queue, and Microsoft Transaction Server. By pulling all of these disparate services into one unified technology, COM+ hold the promise of greater efficiency and more diverse capabilities for developers who are creating applications - either enterprise or commercial software -- to run on a Windows 2000 system. The demand for...