Summary

COM+ provides an extremely powerful suite of tools and services for enterprise applications that covers everything from JIT activation to object pooling, and data sharing to loosely coupled, reliable durable events. This chapter showed you how you can take advantage of the various COM+ services through managed code. The task of utilizing COM+ is extremely easy with code attributes and a few special classes available to COM+ components for things like security checking and voting on transaction outcomes. After completing this chapter, you should be ready to start using COM+ in your applications and making informed decisions about when COM+ makes sense to use in an enterprise application.