This astute reference demystifies the underlying complexities of the Component Object Model (COM) -- explaining how to use the significant COM-based capabilities in Visual Basic 6.0 to create multitier solutions that scale for thousands of users. The best-selling first edition of this book has been fully updated to cover COM+ 1.0, the distributed application framework built into Windows 2000. Developers learn how to share resources such as threads, memory, and poolable objects in a COM+ application; exploit transactional programming techniques for high throughput and low response time; port Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) applications to COM+ and Windows 2000; and build robust, secure Web-based solutions.
TED PATTISON is an author, instructor and owner of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies. Ted has worked with Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism group and the SharePoint Product team to research and author SharePoint developer training material early in the alpha phase of the product lifecycle for SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, and SharePoint 2013. He is also the coauthor of Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010.