Chapter 30: Enterprise Services

Overview

Enterprise Services is the name of the Microsoft application server technology that offers services for distributed solutions. Enterprise Services is based on the COM+ technology that has already been in use for many years. However, instead of wrapping .NET objects as COM objects to use these services, .NET offers extensions for .NET components to take direct advantage of these services. With .NET you get easy access to COM+ services for .NET components.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• When to use Enterprise Services

• What services you get with this technology

• How to create a serviced component to use Enterprise Services

• How to deploy COM+ applications

• How to use transactions with Enterprise Services

• How to use Services without components