COM+ Programming with Visual Basic Developing COM+ Servers with COM, COM+, And . NET

Name: COM+ Programming with Visual Basic Developing COM+ Servers with COM, COM+, And . NET
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ISBN: 9781565928404

ISBN-10: 1565928407

ISBN-13: 9781565928404

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jose Mojica

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The importance of a book like "COM+ Programming with Visual Basic lies in the fact that the Visual Basic programming environment is designed to hide as many low-level system details as possible. While this approach can speed development time by letting you focus on the task at hand, it actually hinders the process when it obscures details you need to understand or control. Such is often the case for programmers who are developing components that take advantage of COM+ services. "COM+ Programming with Visual Basic takes aim squarely at the information needs of these developers. For instance, despite the marketing hype about COM+ as the new and improved version of COM, classic COM is very…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/24/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Jose Mojica is an instructor and researcher at DevelopMentor, a company that's gained an international reputation for its experience with COM and COM+. He teaches various courses that focus on enterprise development in COM+, IIS, .NET, and Visual Basic. Before joining DevelopMentor, Jose was a consultant at IBM, writing DCOM servers that performed speech recognition and creating ActiveX controls in ATL for the ViaVoice SDK. He has worked with Visual Basic since Version 1.0. Jose is the author of Building ActiveX Controls with Visual Basic 5.0 and coauthor of Programming Internet Controls and Distributed Applications for Visual C++ 6.0 MCSD Training Kit.



Preface



COM+ Internals


What Is COM+?


COM and COM+


Knowing the Internals


Introduction to .NET



Interface-Based Programming


Why Interface-Based Programming?


Defining Interfaces in Visual Basic


Using a Class Through an Interface


Polymorphism I (Multiple Components--Single Interface)


Polymorphism II (Single Component--Multiple Interfaces)


Review



How Interfaces Work Internally


Life Without Interfaces


Memory Layout of Interfaces


COM as a Binary Standard


Type Libraries


COM Standard Interfaces: IUnknown and IDispatch


Summary



In-Process Servers


Client-Server Communication: A High-Level View


Client-Server Communication: A Low-Level View



Out-of-Process Servers and COM's Remoting Architecture


ActiveX EXEs


Threads


Remoting and Location Transparency


Pinging Mechanism


Summary



Versioning


The Goal of COM Versioning


Client Requirements


COM's Versioning Story


How Visual Basic Versions Your COM Objects


Using IDL


Summary



COM+ Applications


Creating a COM+ Application


Services Overview


COM+ Administration Components


Summary



Writing and Debugging COM+ Code


COM+ Architecture


Debugging COM+ Applications



Transaction Services


What Is a Transaction?


Declarative Transactions


Summary



COM+ Security


Security Terminology


RPC Security


COM/COM+ Security


Internet-Based Security


Summary



Introduction to .NET


The .NET Architecture


Developing Assemblies


VB.NET Features


Mixing COM+ and .NET


Using COM+ Services


Summary


Index