Chapter 15. COM+ Issues

MICROSOFT HAS CONTINUED TO ENHANCE THIS COMPONENT software technology. First there was OLE, then it evolved to COM, and now there’s COM+. So much of Microsoft’s platform has been built on these technologies that you always have needed to interact with some sort of COM or COM+ component. Now Microsoft is evolving again, and this time the technology is called .NET. Because the .NET framework is new, there needs to be a bridge to COM+ functionality. This bridging brings its own set of issues, and we’ll look at those issues in this chapter.