Inside Com+ Base Services (Microsoft Programming Series)

Guy Eddon, Microsoft Pr

ISBN:0735607281, Edition: , 1999-09

Price: $49.99

Table of Contents

• Cover
  • LOC Page
• Foreword
• Preface
• Part I: Fundamental Programming Architecture
  • Chapter 1 -- Component Software
    • From Object-Oriented Programming to Component Software
    • The Evolution of COM+
    • From COM to COM+
  • Chapter 2 -- The IUnknown Interface
    • Interface Definition Language
    • The Client
    • The Component
    • Merging Object Identity
  • Chapter 3 -- Language Integration
    • Type Libraries
    • The Active Template Library
    • COM+ Programming in Visual Basic
    • COM+ Programming in Java
  • Chapter 4 -- Apartments
    • A Quick Review of Threads
    • Apartment Types
    • Threading Models for In-Process Components
    • Apartments and Language Integration
    • The Ten Threading Commandments
• Part II: Base Facilities
  • Chapter 5 -- Automation
    • The IDispatch Interface
    • Implementing IDispatch
    • Building Automation Clients
    • Scripting
  • Chapter 6 -- Exceptions
    • Error Codes
    • Rich Error Information
  • Chapter 7 -- Component Categories
    • Standard Component Categories
    • Registering a Component Category
    • Obtaining Component Category Information
  • Chapter 8 -- Connection Points
    • A Simple Connectable Object
    • A Complete Connectable Object
  • Chapter 9 -- Type Information
    • Creating a Type Library
    • Obtaining Type Information
  • Chapter 10 -- Persistence
    • The IPersist Interface Family
    • Structured Storage
  • Chapter 11 -- Monikers
    • Initializing Objects
    • More on Monikers
    • The Class Moniker
    • The New Moniker
    • The Java Moniker
    • The Running Object Table
• Part III: Remoting Architecture
  • Chapter 12 -- Surrogates
    • DLL Surrogates
    • Custom Surrogates
    • An Introduction to Marshaling
  • Chapter 13 -- Executable Components
    • Building an Executable Component
    • Managing the Lifetime of an Executable Component
    • Singletons
  • Chapter 14 -- Custom Marshaling
    • Marshaling Interface Pointers: An Overview
    • Will That Be Custom or Standard Marshaling?
    • Marshal-by-Value
  • Chapter 15 -- Standard Marshaling
    • The Standard Marshaling Architecture
    • Converting Marshaled Interface Pointers to Strings
    • Handler Marshaling
  • Chapter 16 -- Interface Definition Language
    • Types
    • Directional Attributes
    • Arrays
    • Pointers
    • Interface Design Recommendations
  • Chapter 17 -- Asynchronous Calls
    • Making Asynchronous Calls
    • Call Cancellation
    • Pipes
  • Chapter 18 -- Security
    • The Windows Distributed Security Model
    • Declarative Security: The Registry
    • Programmatic Security
  • Chapter 19 -- The Network Protocol
    • Spying on the Network Protocol
    • Internet Services
    • Calling All Remote Objects
    • Marshaled Interface Pointers
    • The OXID Resolver
    • Garbage Collection
    • Channel Hooks
• Appendix -- Remote Procedure Calls
  • The Design and Purpose of RPC
  • The Prime Application
• Bibliography
• About the Authors
• Footnotes