i am new to windows services and i have this problem.
I need, into a service, to connect to an Oracle database with same
user/password of the service account.
Can i find this information ?

I did a simple COM+ and when trying to register it gives the following error
"One or more files do not contain components or type libraries. These files
cannot be installed"
I have tried debug/release both versions, still the same. Before adding I

Does someone have a design pattern for an singleton object, published
by a Windows Service, that can be used to provide control over the
service?
Things such as configuration parameters. It would be nice if the

I have a class which is derived from ServicedComponent. The instances do not
support JITA, nor do they require any transactions.
Each pooled object holds a few references to expensive resources.
My usage is as follows:

Has anyone encounter an error similiar to the one below.
How does one resolve this issue? Suggesstions, solutions?
Development environment:
.NET Framework 1.1

I am currently writing an ASP.NET application that uses unmanaged COM+
components that are supposed to be installed in a different server. I am
using the following code to connect via DCOM to these components and it does
not work, it raises "Specified cast is not valid" exception ...

i just want to configure an existing COM+ component(i have not source code)
from "required" level to "supported" level programmelly. c# code is the best
help. and any other help would be really appreciated.thanks.

I have a simple component that is derived from ServicedComponent, and has a
strong name, and is installed into COM+. The component is just a shell with
no actual code yet. The following code when called repeatedly shows a memory
leak in the DLLHost process

Hi all, we need urgent help in a matter.
We are trying to pass a COM object from the client to server and are
facing some problems in the same.
We've our client in C# as well as the Server in C# and we're using

I'm running into a problem which may be related to a timeout occurring.  I
have a app that is consuming a web service I wrote.  The web service does a
large amount of database updates using COM+ transaction support.  After
about 70 to 80 seconds I get an error stating the following: ...

The following code causes "Specified cast is not valid" exception when line
3
executes inside an ASP.NET application. I have tried this with several
components. Exactly the same code works if

I am reading about .net serviced components right now, but have a doubt
about library applications. The documentation says that library applications
run in the client`s process. So, if my user has a windows application
installed on his machine and that application calls a serviced ...

What is the real difference between AutoComplete and
AutoComplete(boolean)? Accordingly to the help, AutoComplete tells the
application to automatically call SetComplete if the transaction
succeeds, but isn't AutoComplete(true) the same? Is 'true' the default

I need some help in order to understand contexts. The article at
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/xmlentsvcs/espaper.aspx says that a
context is an environment for objects with similar execution
requirements. If I have two serviced components with exactly the same