COM+ Programming with Visual Basic: Developing COM+ Servers with COM, COM+, and .NET
In response to some comments, I wanted to clarify that my book, COM+ Programming with Visual Basic, is not really about the COM+ services.  For a book on the services themselves, I suggest Juval Lowy’s COM and .NET Component Services (O’Reilly).In my book, I did not try to address every feature in COM+ -- there are a lot of books out there that already do that.  I feel the real need is for VB developers to understand how things really work inside. My book is an internals book. First, I show an internal view of the COM architecture from the side of the VB compiler and then I show an internal view of the core COM+ architecture.  Following this, I show an internal view of what I considered the essential COM+ services. To finish, I give an introduction to .NET and VB.NET.So I guess a more fitting title is "How COM+ Works Internally."  But now a word of caution... Like I say in the book’s introduction and like the other reviewer noted, if you do not want to know the low level details, stay away. If you are tired of C++ developers claiming to know more than us VB'ers about COM/COM+ then this is the book to get.