Scot Hillier's COM+ Programming with Visual Basic (Sams White Book Series)

Scot Hillier’s COM+ Programming with Visual Basic......Page 2
Copyright © 2000 by Sams Publishing......Page 3
Contents at a Glance......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
About the Author......Page 11
Part I: Understanding COM+ Applications......Page 14
Part II: Data Services......Page 15
Part IV: User Services......Page 16
Part V: PubsOnLine.com......Page 17
Conventions Used in This Book......Page 18
PART I Understanding COM+ Applications......Page 20
CHAPTER 1 Windows DNA and COM+......Page 22
Windows 2000 Services......Page 24
Tiered Architecture Overview......Page 31
Establishing a Test Environment......Page 36
CHAPTER 2 Administering COM+......Page 40
The Component Services Explorer......Page 41
CHAPTER 3 Designing COM+ Applications......Page 66
Assessing Functional Requirements......Page 67
Describing the System......Page 71
Creating the Paper Prototype......Page 78
CHAPTER 4 COM+ Application Fundamentals......Page 96
Understanding Contexts......Page 97
Object Activation......Page 101
Managing Shared Properties......Page 115
PART II Data Services......Page 124
CHAPTER 5 Accessing Data with COM+......Page 126
OLEDB Session Pooling......Page 127
Understanding Data Transportation......Page 136
XML......Page 147
Updating Records......Page 155
CHAPTER 6 COM+ Data Components......Page 162
Encapsulating Stored Procedures......Page 164
Parameter Passing......Page 167
Error Handling......Page 174
Polymorphic Interfaces......Page 176
The DNA Payload......Page 180
Conclusion......Page 188
CHAPTER 7 COM+ Transactions......Page 194
Understanding Transaction Attributes......Page 195
The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator......Page 196
Transactional Components......Page 197
Monitoring Transactions......Page 211
PART III Business Services......Page 218
CHAPTER 8 COM+ Security......Page 220
Distributed Security......Page 221
Active Directory......Page 223
Active Directory Services Interface......Page 226
COM+ Security Features......Page 235
Conclusion......Page 239
CHAPTER 9 COM+ Business Features......Page 244
The COM+ Event System......Page 245
COM+ Constructors......Page 251
Compensating Resource Manager System......Page 255
CHAPTER 10 Asynchronous COM+ Applications......Page 268
The Microsoft Message Queue......Page 269
MSMQ Applications......Page 271
Queued Components......Page 278
PART IV User Services......Page 292
CHAPTER 11 COM+ and the Internet......Page 294
New Internet Information Server Features......Page 295
Creating Transactional Web Pages......Page 303
Accessing ASP Objects with COM+ Components......Page 311
Understanding XSL Style Sheets......Page 313
CHAPTER 12 COM+ and Win32......Page 324
Maintaining Application State......Page 325
User Interface Strategies......Page 332
CHAPTER 13 Integrating COM+ with Groupware......Page 344
Integrating Exchange 2000 Server with COM+......Page 345
Integrating Microsoft Outlook 2000 with COM+......Page 351
Integrating Digital Dashboards with COM+......Page 361
CHAPTER 14 Debugging and Deploying COM+ Applications......Page 366
Debugging COM+ Components......Page 367
Deploying COM+ Applications......Page 369
Analyzing COM+ Applications......Page 376
CHAPTER 15 COM+ Catalog Administration......Page 390
The COM+ Administration Object Model......Page 391
Performing COM+ Administration with the Windows Scripting Host......Page 396
PART V PubsOnLine.com......Page 402
CHAPTER 16 Designing the PubsOnLine.com Application......Page 404
Gathering Requirements......Page 405
Identifying Actors and Use Cases......Page 406
Screen Shots and the Paper Prototype......Page 416
Data Model......Page 420
System Models......Page 421
Defining Components......Page 428
CHAPTER 17 Building the PubsOnLine.com Application......Page 430
Development Environment......Page 431
Creating the Database......Page 432
Creating the COM+ Components......Page 438
Creating the Web Interface......Page 458
INDEX......Page 462