Understanding Com+ : The Architecture for Enterprise Development Using Microsoft Technologies (Revised ed)

Developing enterprise applications has traditionally been a long, painful, and expensive task because applications developers often have to reinvent the wheel by writing, from scratch, the entire infrastructure needed to scale business logic up to the enterprise level.

That's where COM+ comes in. It's an advanced Component Object Model (COM) runtime environment that provides prefabricated solutions to many of these generic infrastructure problems.

It's like a toolkit full of prefabricated solutions that are always available to simplify the work of Microsoft enterprise application developers. "Understanding COM+, Revised Edition" elaborates on this story for developers, technical managers, and anyone else who needs to understand the COM+ architecture and technologies.