COM and .NET Component Services: Migrating from COM+ to .NET Book

Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Scope of This Book; Some Assumptions About the Reader; Definitions and Text Conventions; Other COM+ Books and References; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: COM+ Component Services; 1.1 COM+ Component Services; 1.2 The Component Services Explorer; 1.3 Hello COM+; 1.4 COM+ Configured Components; 1.5 Applications, DLLs, and Components; 1.6 Configuring COM+ Applications; 1.7 Debugging COM+ Applications; 1.8 Deploying COM+ Applications; 1.9 Summary; Chapter 2: COM+ Context; 2.1 Encapsulation via Marshaling in COM; 2.2 Encapsulation via Interception in COM+; 2.3 The Context Object; 2.4 The Call Object; 2.5 Cross-Context Manual Marshaling; 2.6 Summary; Chapter 3: COM+ Instance Management; 3.1 Client Types; 3.2 Instance Management and Scaling; 3.3 Object Pooling; 3.4 Just-in-Time Activation; 3.5 Combining JITA with Object Pooling; 3.6 Object Constructor String; 3.7 COM+ Instance Management Pitfalls; Chapter 4: COM+ Transactions; 4.1 Transaction Basics; 4.2 Transaction Properties; 4.3 Transaction Scenarios; 4.4 COM+ Transactions Architecture; 4.5 Configuring Transactions; 4.6 Voting on a Transaction; 4.7 Transactional Object Life Cycle; 4.8 Designing Transactional Components; 4.9 Nontransactional Clients; 4.10 Transactions and Object Pooling; 4.11 Compensating Transactions; 4.12 Transaction Execution Time; 4.13 Tracing Transactions; 4.14 In-Doubt Transactions; 4.15 Transaction Statistics; 4.16 COM+ Transactions Pitfalls; Chapter 5: COM+ Concurrency Model; 5.1 Object-Oriented Programming and Multiple Threads; 5.2 Apartments: The Classic COM Solution; 5.3 Activities: The COM+ Innovation; 5.4 COM+ Configuration Settings; 5.5 Activities and JITA; 5.6 Activities and Transactions; 5.7 Tracing Activities; 5.8 The Neutral Threaded Apartment; 5.9 Summary; Chapter 6: Programming the COM+ Catalog; 6.1 Why Program the Catalog?; 6.2 The Catalog Programming Model; 6.3 Catalog Structure; 6.4 Interacting with the Catalog; 6.5 Features of COMAdminCatalog; 6.6 The COM+ Catalog and Transactions; 6.7 Summary; Chapter 7: COM+ Security; 7.1 The Need for Security; 7.2 Basic Security Terms; 7.3 Role-Based Security; 7.4 Securing a Server Application; 7.5 Securing a Library Application; 7.6 Programmatic Role-Based Security; 7.7 Security Boundaries; 7.8 Advanced COM+ Security; 7.9 COM+ Security Pitfalls; 7.10 Summary; Chapter 8: COM+ Queued Components; 8.1 Major Benefits of Queued Components; 8.2 Queued Components Architecture; 8.3 Component Services Explorer Configuration; 8.4 Invoking Queued Components on the Client Side; 8.5 Designing Queued Component Interfaces; 8.6 Receiving Output from a Queued Component; 8.7 Queued Component Error Handling; 8.8 Queued Components and Transactions; 8.9 Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Components; 8.10 Queued Components Security; 8.11 Queued Components Pitfalls; 8.12 Summary; Chapter 9: COM+ Event Service; 9.1 Classic COM Events; 9.2 COM+ Event Model; 9.3 The Event Class; 9.4 Subscription Types; 9.5 Delivering Events; 9.6 Event Filtering; 9.7 Distributed COM+ Events; 9.8 Asynchronous Events; 9.9 COM+ Events and Transactions; 9.10 COM+ Events and Security; 9.11 COM+ Events Limitation; 9.12 Summary; Chapter 10: .NET Serviced Components; 10.1 Developing Serviced Components; 10.2 .NET Assemblies and COM+ Applications; 10.3 Registering Assemblies; 10.4 Configuring Serviced Components; 10.5 Application Activation Type; 10.6 The Description Attribute; 10.7 Accessing the COM+ Context; 10.8 COM+ Context Attributes; 10.9 COM+ Object Pooling; 10.10 COM+ Just-in-Time Activation; 10.11 COM+ Constructor String; 10.12 COM+ Transactions; 10.13 COM+ Synchronization; 10.14 Programming the COM+ Catalog; 10.15 COM+ Security; 10.16 COM+ Queued Components; 10.17 COM+ Loosely Coupled Events; 10.18 Summary; The COM+ Logbook; Logbook Requirements; Log File Example; Using the Logbook; Configuring the Logbook; How Does the Logbook Work?; Summary; COM+ 1.5; Improved User Interface Usability; Legacy Applications and Components; Disabling Applications and Components; Pausing Applications; Service Activation Type; Improved Queuing Support; Application Pooling and Recycling; Application Dump; Application Partitioning; Aliasing Components; Configurable Transaction Isolation Level; Improved Context Activation Setting; Private Components; Web Services in COM+ 1.5; Summary; Introduction to .NET; .NET Programming Languages; Packaging .NET Components: Assemblies; Developing .NET Components; Writing .NET Client-Side Code; .NET as a Component Technology; Composing Assemblies; Colophon;