Architecting and Building Enterprise Solutions with COM+ and .NET English 2005

The last decade saw a substantial growth of the IT industry in various segments. The Component Object Model (COM) developed by Microsoft has emerged as the de facto standard for component development. Many analysts predict that the component market is a billion dollar market and would continue to grow in the coming years. In the year 2000, Microsoft presented an innovative approach to designing components, incorporating best practices, as part of the Microsoft.NET Framework. This title seeks to present concepts pertaining to COM/COM+ in the context of.NET Framework and then proceeds to explain how to build COM/COM+ components for the.NET applications. The concepts are reinforced with the relevant and well-illustrated examples. Though the way the components are programmed, has changed over a period of time, COM+ component services continue to provide the necessary infrastructure and services that are essential for the execution of the COM/COM+ components (be it legacy COM components or the new.NET components). COM+ component services play a dominant role in the enterprise sector, specially in the development of reusable components encapsulating business logic. This book addresses COM+ development using C No. and is targeted towards C No. developers. However, even Visual Basic.NET developers can benefit from this book, since the core concepts related to COM+ development in the Microsoft.NET Framework remain the same across all the languages supported in the Framework.