COM+

Learn how to build client applications that use SOAP based web services.

Discover how to write a component that can be used in a COM+ enviroment.

Hot on the heels of the significant MFC updates that were delivered with the release of Visual Studio 2008, the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack significantly boosts the ability of MFC to deliver modern-looking user interfaces that will be familiar to Windows and Office users. Look at these new controls and see how MFC developers can significantly improve their application's look and feel.

Learn about a simple way to understand and implement the COM+ Admin and Instrumentation interfaces.

Learn how to implement some basic error handling and perform cleanup operations.

Learn how to work around the restriction of using a single handler type at a time.

CComPtr wraps any interface pointer and will call AddRef() and Release() properly. You don't need to worry about controlling the lifetime of your interface pointer.

Learn how to use .NET and Managed C++ to program owner-draw menu items with the fonts and point sizes you want.

One drawback to using remoting in a mixed—MFC/.NET—environment is that MFC objects cannot be remoted. Explore this technique for overcoming this limitation.

In this installment of the .NET Tips & Techniques column, learn how to serialize entire objects—as well as selected members—to and from disk using Managed C++ Extensions.

Having enterprise development problems? Discover Whitehorse, a set of modeling tools included in the next release of Visual Studio .NET (code-named Whidbey).

The COM+ catalog holds all COM+ configuration data. The only way you can access the catalog is through the Component Services administrative tool or through the COMAdmin library. Learn to administer this service easily.

Create a COM CoCreate instance.

Explore COM Interoperability, also known as COM Interop. COM Interop is the means to which COM objects can be used in a .NET application and how .NET objects can be built to appear to be COM objects.

Learn how to programmatically adminstrate your COM+ Applications using the COM+ Admin Objects

The COM Interop story is vital to the acceptance of .NET by today's programmers. You need access to the huge body of working tested code that is in production today, deployed as COM components. Your .NET code can call old COM code.

A simple way to create a SOAP client using C++.

Take a dip into how the Connection Points Event Handling mechanism in Classic COM Components can be used by .NET applications to receive event Notifications via the COM Interop.

Aravind, who contributed mightily to the COM interoperability chapter of the Microsoft Press "Inside C#" book, writes this fantastic tutorial on how to use COM components from your .NET C# applications!