Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create and deploy serviced components. Serviced components are the name for .NET classes that use COM+ services, which are now called Enterprise Services. To create a serviced component, you must inherit from the System.EnterpriseServices.ServicedComponent class. You must then add assembly attributes that you can use to configure the COM+ application that the component will be hosted with and class attributes that configure the serviced component within its application. You deploy serviced components using the .NET Services Installation Tool (regsvcs.exe).

The current implementation of serviced components uses a significant amount of unmanaged code. It's likely that this implementation will be replaced by a serviced component infrastructure that is based entirely on managed code.

In the next chapter, I discuss the quintessential technology in the .NET Framework: XML Web services.