I have writen some C# code that will subscribe an object as a transient
subscriber for a particular event. When the COM application that this
code is associated with is activated as a library, everything works
fine. However, when the application is activated as a server, I get the

We are developing an application in .Net 1.1 and using COM+ as our
transaction manager.
Our database is stored on a Windows 2003 SP1 server (with COM+ all enabled
for network access).

I've tried to install my cofigured component in more than one application
partition on Windows 2003 Server using regsvcs.exe /parname:<name of
partition>. The first installation has worked without problems but the
second has failed with an error: "...already installed". I haven't ...

My application needs component level transactions and across database
transactions. .Net provides 2 classes ServiceDomain/ServiceConfig for
using component services. This is supported in Windows 2003, but not in
Windows 2000. This approach is quite simple and doesn't have the

On a 2003 MS Terminal Server the COM+ System Application and Distributed
Transaction Coordinator services keep changing from the "started" state to
the "disabled" state. When they are manually reactivated on the server they
run for a few hours and are disabled again.

When right clicking on my Component Services Application, and choosing to
Start the application, I get the following error:
"an error occurred while processing the last operation"
"Error code 800401E4 - Invalid syntax"

My company are just about to launch a massive project and I am going to have
the job of working on web based pages which perform billing and other tasks.
I thought this would be the sort of application which could benifit from
some of the features of "enterprise"/COM+ solutions ...

We have a situation when after user submits the page the data goes to 5
different stored procedures which are executed one after the other and
all these stored procedures should be in a one single transaction. My
question is where should I start the transactions, In the Business