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SUMMARY

This article provides a roadmap to learn and to master Microsoft .NET Enterprise Services. Roadmap articles provide links to useful information, including online documentation, Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, and Microsoft white papers, to help you learn about a Microsoft product or technology.

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Overview

Microsoft COM+ provides a strong foundation to build component-based enterprise applications by using Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) objects. Microsoft .NET Enterprise Services is a feature that is included in the Microsoft .NET Framework. With .NET Enterprise Services, you can take advantage of COM+ features for .NET objects. Additionally, .NET Enterprise Services includes some new features for .NET components that are not available to COM components.

The process to develop Enterprise Services components (or serviced components) is similar to the process that you use to develop COM+ COM components. COM+ features are available to both processes, and these features work the same for both processes.

For more information about .NET serviced components, see the following Microsoft Web sites:

COM+ Services
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms687015.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms687015.aspx)

Writing Serviced Components
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3x7357ez(vs.71).aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3x7357ez(vs.71).aspx)

Summary of Available COM+ Services
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k702b5fx(vs.71).aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k702b5fx(vs.71).aspx)

Understanding Enterprise Services (COM+) in .NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973847.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973847.aspx)

Redistributing the .NET Framework 1.1
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms994402.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms994402.aspx)

COM+ Services Without Components
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681748.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681748.aspx)

The COM+ Security Model Gets You Out of the Security Programming Business
http://www.microsoft.com/msj/1199/comsecurity/comsecurity.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/msj/1199/comsecurity/comsecurity.aspx)

Discover Powerful Low-Level Programming in Windows XP with New COM+ APIs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/04/COMXP/default.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/04/COMXP/default.aspx)

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Security Information for Developers
http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/productinfo/xpsp2/default.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/productinfo/xpsp2/default.aspx)

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Walkthroughs

Walkthroughs provide mini-tutorials that walk you through typical application development scenarios. For a .NET Enterprise Services walkthrough, see the following Microsoft .NET Framework Developer's Guide documentation:

Serviced Component Example
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a0za9azy(vs.71).aspx (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a0za9azy(vs.71).aspx)

For additional information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

306296 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306296/ ) HOW TO: Create a serviced .NET component in Visual C# .NET

312902 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312902/ ) HOW TO: Create a serviced .NET component in Visual Basic .NET

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Frequently asked questions

For additional information about which platforms support xES, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

327778 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327778/ ) INFO: Platform support for EnterpriseServices

For additional information if you are using JIT activation and if you want some performance gains, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

831933 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831933/ ) FIX: MiniJIT allows Just-In-Time-Activated COM+ components to join their own context

For additional information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322630 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322630/ ) PRB: Some functionalities of a COM+ application do not change if you change the corresponding settings in the COM+ catalog

322627 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322627/ ) INFO: Exposing ServicedComponents as a remoting endpoint from a COM+ Dllhost.exe process is not supported

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Microsoft Support WebCasts

For additional information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

324813 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324813/ ) Support WebCast: Microsoft COM+ and the Microsoft .NET Framework

325153 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325153/ ) Support WebCast: Best practices and what is new for COM+

325070 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325070/ ) Support WebCast: COM threading and application architecture in COM+ applications

325259 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325259/ ) Support WebCast: Debugging distributed applications

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Troubleshooting

If you experience problems, or if you have questions, you can see the MSDN newsgroups where you can share your experiences with your peers. You can also use the Microsoft Knowledge Base where you can search for articles about specific issues.

MSDN Newsgroups
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/ (http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/)

Searching the Knowledge Base
http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1 (http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1)

For more information about how to debug COM+ applications, visit the following MSDN Web site:

Debugging COM+ Applications
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682804.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682804.aspx)

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