This course is intended for departmental developers who currently build client/server applications and large-scale solutions for departments inside a business; consultants who work with developers to build client/server applications and large-scale solutions for businesses; Web developers who build Web-based applications requiring significant infrastructure support such as transactions, security, and pooling of resources; and Line-of-Business (LOB) application developers.

• Describe the history of server-based applications and describe the COM+ runtime architecture.
• Use attributes to configure an assembly as a COM+ application and create components that use Just-in-Time (JIT) activation and are synchronized.
• Create data access components that use Microsoft ADO.NET to retrieve or update data in a database.
• Create transactional components.
• Secure an enterprise application by using COM+ services role-based security.
• Manage state in JIT activated components.
• Create Compensating Resource Managers (CRMs) to enable transactional support for resources lacking a resource manager
• Use loosely coupled events (LCEs) to send notifications to other applications.
• Create queued components.
• Debug COM+ applications and describe common application-failure scenarios and how to solve these failures.
• Create scripts for managing deployment and administration.
• Use the enhancements provided by COM+ version 1.5 to improve the scalability, availability, and manageability of COM+ applications and use COM+ features such as Services Without Components (SWC), Bring Your Own Transaction (BYOT), and Phase Zero notification in applications.

Introduction to COM+ Services

• History of Server-Based Applications
• The COM+ Runtime Architecture

Configuring Just-in-Time Activation and Synchronisation

• The .NET Enterprise Services Programming Model
• JIT Activation
• Synchronization

Using ADO.NET to Work With Data

• The ADO.NET Architecture
• Accessing a SQL Server Database

Transaction Services

• Introduction to Transaction Processing
• .NET Enterprise Services Transactions

Securing Enterprise Applications

• Introduction to Application Security
• Implementing COM+ Role-Based Security
• Authentication and Impersonation

State Management

• Introduction to State Management
• Using the Shared Property Manager
• Using ASP.NET to Store State

Compensating Resource Managers

• Introduction to Compensating Resource Managers
• Implementing Compensating Resource Managers

Loosely Coupled Events

• Introduction to Loosely Coupled Events
• COM+ Events
• Using Loosely Coupled Events

Queued Components

• Introduction to Queuing
• Developing Queued Components
• Queued Components and Transactions

Debugging COM+ Applications

• Debugging Tools
• Common Debugging Scenarios

Deploying and Administering COM+ Applications

• Deploying a COM+ Application Built Using .NET Enterprise Services
• Using COMAdmin Objects in WSH Scripts