Summary

In this chapter, you learned about creating and managing .NET components that make use of .NET Enterprise Services. We covered the following topics:

• An introduction to Serviced Components

• How to use Enterprise Services features such as transaction processing, object construction, object pooling, role-based sSecurity, and other features to improve performance, reliability, and scalability in your .NET applications

• How to add attributes to your .NET code to declaratively configure your serviced components

• How to use transactions to coordinate operations that involve multiple objects

• How to use the properties and methods of the ServicedComponent class from the .NET Framework to control transaction outcome

• How to make a .NET component available to COM clients

• How to make a COM component available to managed code

• How to call functions in unmanaged DLLs

• How to call functions from the Win32 API