Looking for some pointers, tutorials, online help to get me going.
I need to write a service that monitors a SQL server agent (replication) and
will run basically a macro in an Office program to update certain files
maintained in the DB.

Is it possible that a transaction span from a web page to a web service?

Could someone clear up a couple things for me?
1. A,B and C are all COM+ (Serviced components).
If A is the root, B and C are still allowed to call SetComplete correct?
IOW, If one day A is the root but in a different scenerio C is the root, I

We are using Services Without Components on both XP and Windows Server
2003. On our XP development box, we were able to use it without any
problems, but it suddenly stopped working. Now, when we run our
application we get a a "Feature not supported on this platform" exception.

Hello and thanks for reading.
I have implemented role-based security on some serviced componts at
method level and it works fine.  However, method level isn't granular
enough.  I made the decision for my clients to call Method_1 and if

Are there any examples of real large scale enterprise applications built by
using .NET ServicedComponents?
Any links are highly appreciated! :-)
Thanks!

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I'm thinking of
implementing a queued component using a .NET serviced component, but I need
to consume this component from a Java client.  Is it possible to use COM+
objects from Java?

I have an assembly with a single class derived from
System.EnterpriseServices.ServicedComponent that I've fully attributed.
Running REGSVCS against the assembly correctly installs the COM object and
the COM+ application, component and interfaces.

Is there an control or class in VB.net what can give me an easy way to
program a simple FTP program?
Something like inet in vb 6
thanks

What is the proper way to reference a COM+ component in VB.Net? I've created
a class library installed to COM+, put in the GAC. The only way to get my
client to work was to reference the dll in c:\program files\complus
applications\. This doesn't seem to be the correct approach. ...

In VB 6 when I create "ActiveX control" I have got 'ocx' file, I do
'regsvr32' to this file and I can use it in "Word".
(In "word" I click on the last button in "controls toolbox" toolbar).
In VB.NET I try to open "Windows Control Library".

I have a WinForms app on a box MACH1 and a DB on a box MACH2
The WinForms app calls a Serviced Comp that runs as a server with
identity <MACH1>\MYUSER (i.e. an account local to MACH1)
I have defined on MACH2 a user <MACH2>\MYUSER with the same password

I am having a problem with ServicedComponent: I have developed a COM+ component in C#, that interacts with SqlClient database. When I tested this every thing was fine: it is executing the query and giving back proper results.
When I used this component in another component that ...