Table Of Contents:
Foreword ix(2)
Acknowledgments xi(4)
Introduction xv

Chapter 1 An Overview of Distributed COM 1(18)

WHAT IS COM? 1(6)

THE MOVE FROM TWO-TIER TO N-TIER ARCHITECTURE 7(7)

DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT ON WINDOWS NT SERVER 14(4)

HOW DO YOU GET UP TO SPEED AND STAY AFLOAT? 18(1)

Chapter 2 Understanding Interface-Based Programming 19(22)

CLASSES, OBJECTS, AND CLIENTS 20(3)

IMPLEMENTATION INHERITANCE 23(5)

SEPARATING THE INTERFACE FROM THE IMPLEMENTATION 28(10)

USING INTERFACES IN YOUR APPLICATION DESIGNS 38(3)

Chapter 3 Exploring COM Internals 41(20)

THE BIRTH OF COM 41(2)

INITIAL COM DESIGN REQUIREMENTS 43(11)

EXAMINING THE COM INFRASTRUCTURE 54(7)

Chapter 4 Understanding COM Objects 61(16)

THE IUNKNOWN INTERFACE 61(4)

AUTOMATION 65(5)

TAKING COM OUT OF PROCESS 70(5)

OBJECTS AND SERVERS 75(2)

Chapter 5 COM Servers 77(30)

COMPONENT PACKAGING 77(4)

BUILDING A SERVER 81(5)

COMPONENT VERSIONING 86(8)

SERVER DESIGN ISSUES 94(4)

HRESULTS AND COM EXCEPTIONS 98(7)

DESIGNING SERVERS 105(2)

Chapter 6 Designing Interfaces 107(30)

MANAGING INTERFACE DESIGN 108(7)

DESIGNING REMOTE INTERFACES 115(8)

OBJECTS AND THE UNIVERSAL MARSHALER 123(5)

OUTBOUND INTERFACES 128(9)

Chapter 7 Exploring Apartments and Multithreading 137(22)

A WIN32 THREADING PRIMER 138(8)

MULTITHREADING WITH VISUAL BASIC 146(7)

MULTITHREADING IN A FORM-BASED APPLICATION 153(2)

THREADING IN THE COM+ ERA 155(1)

WHEN DO YOU REALLY NEED MULTITHREADING? 156(3)

Chapter 8 Examining Remote Activation 159(18)

RPC AND COM 160(5)

SERVER-SIDE CONFIGURATION 165(8)

CLIENT-SIDE CONFIGURATION 173(2)

USING DISTRIBUTED COM ACROSS A FIREWALL 175(1)

EVALUATING THE INITIAL RELEASE OF DISTRIBUTED COM 175(2)

Chapter 9 The MTS Run-Time Environment 177(24)

DEPLOYING MTS COMPONENTS 178(6)

THE MTS EXECUTIVE 184(7)

THE MTS CONCURRENCY MODEL 191(3)

DEVELOPING MTS COMPONENTS 194(7)

Chapter 10 Programming Transactions 201(32)

FUNDAMENTALS OF TRANSACTION PROCESSING 202(5)

DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTIONS 207(5)

MTS AND DECLARATIVE TRANSACTIONS 212(21)

Chapter 11 Programming with Microsoft Message Queue 233(38)

WHY ARE QUEUES IMPORTANT? 234(4)

THE MSMQ NETWORK 238(2)

INSTALLING MSMQ 240(2)

PROGRAMMING MSMQ OBJECTS 242(18)

USING TRANSACTIONAL MESSAGES 260(4)

USING AUXILIARY QUEUES 264(7)

Chapter 12 Designing Distributed Applications 271(30)

THE MTS SECURITY MODEL 272(7)

SHARING GLOBAL DATA ACROSS MTS OBJECTS 279(4)

CREATING WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS 283(10)

CREATING MIDDLEWARE FOR A DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION 293(8)
Index 301