Programming Distributed Applications with COM+ and Microsoft Visual Basic (DV-MPS Programming)

This book is for intermediate and advanced Visual Basic programmers who want to develop for COM+ and Windows 2000. The book focuses on the architecture of the Windows platform. To this extent, it can also serve as a resource for ASP and C++ developers. Some readers might be new to COM. Other readers might already have experience with COM and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS). My goal in this edition is to accommodate both kinds of readers.

This astute reference demystifies the underlying complexities of the Component Object Model (COM) - explaining how to use the significant COM-based capabilities in Visual Basic 6.0 to create multitier solutions that scale for thousands of users. The best-selling first edition of this book has been fully updated to cover COM+ 1.0, the distributed application framework built into Windows 2000. Developers learn how to share resources such as threads, memory, and poolable objects in a COM+ application; exploit transactional programming techniques for high throughput and low response time; port Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) applications to COM+ and Windows 2000; and build robust, secure Web-based solutions.

A guide to using Visual BASIC to develop COM/COM+ applications explores DNA technologies and the conversions of MTS to Com+.