I have a COM+ application that i am trying to install manually by double clicking on the .msi file but it gives error and fails to install the COM+ application. It doesn't create any entry in Comp...

Happy 20th Birthday VB6! Yes, VB6 is still alive even though support ran out 13 years ago. Feel free to razz me but please also provide any insight you might have on this issue. I have a VB6 EXE o...

I am having a look on an old web application written in the 90s in VB6 and Active Server Pages (JScript). The application retrieves some data from the database and stores it in a recordset which it...

Is there any way to get the information about Launching identity of DCOM application programmatically. See the picture attached to understand what i mean. I tried to use WMI ManagementObjectSea...

I have a COM+ application installed on my machine which has two components. This COM+ application was created using an SetupCom.exe file which was made using C# code some years bac. It used to inst...

We have an old project that we are supporting and there is an issue that occurs most probably due to multi-threading. The original implementer 'fixed' it by doing a Thread.sleep before executing th...

I developed a .NET assembly (.NET 4.0, strong-named) which exposes two Serviced Components. The assembly (dll) is supposed to be hosted in a COM+ application and it is decorated with the COM+ attri...

I want to access partitioned COM+ applications on a remote server. I have tried this: using COMAdmin using System.Runtime.InteropServices; _serverName = myRemoteServer; _partionName = myPartionN...

I have a huge application that was made with COM+ Objects and i want to track/log the call of events of these components. The objective is to find the problems and refator that methods. I have foun...

I have developed a COM+ Component in C# be inheriting ServicedComponent. Here is how it looks like: [Transaction(TransactionOption.Required)] [ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.AutoDual)] [Even...

When a COM+ application is created the wizard offers to choose between a library and a server application. A server application is activated in a separate process and this can be used to cheaply i...

I maintain a legacy Java application that uses Jacob, or Java-COM Bridge, to make calls via the COM interfaces of MS VBA and MS Word. I have been looking at com4j from Sun, and it looks promising. ...

I am automating the creation of a web server. An application is created for me, but I need to manually change the Identity of a COM+ Application to run as a specific user. Being a linux admin w...

I have a multi-user COM+ application that needs to make multiple requests on SOAP WebServices. Each SOAP request may last from 10 to 60 seconds (that is not under my control). Problem is, I can nev...

I'm trying to programmatically set the constructor sting of a COM+ component from a C# application. I found the following sample code online, but it throws an exception: COMAdminCatalogCollection...

I've been trying to use WiX 3.7 to install a COM+ assembly. I've been using several WiX code snippets I found here on StackOverflow. Although I can generate an MSI, when I then install the msi it f...

i have a 32 com library and would like to use its functionality by a 64 bits application , i 've searched on the internet and managed to get this workaround Locate your COM object GUID under the...

I am curious about COM+, DCOM. I know that MSFT does not encourage you to use this tools natively (meaning with C/C++, in fact there is not a lot of documentation available) but I want to learn to ...

We are trying to migrate an Intranet Web Application, developed in VB6, from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 and we are facing a problem with two phase commit transactions between Mic...

I am using a COM Interop and i am instantiating the COM class object from the interop dll So, few times the object is instantiated successfully and make remote procedure calls without any problem b...

When implementing IComMethodEvents you get three events. OnMethodCall OnMethodException OnMethodReturn The goal of what I am trying to do is to log call times per method in COM+ components. ...

I have a classic ASP application running on IIS 7 in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. It was working fine at one point in the day when suddenly, without any code changes, it began throwing the fol...

I am an admin in my COM+ server machine, my COM+ server component identity set to "This User" and provided my credentials there. I could invoke my component from client machine. But client app will...

I'm trying to set the following values with the powershell COMAdmin.COMAdminCatalog but I can't find the setting for the below in red. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I have following question : Is it possible that .NET assembly will be regsitered both with Regasm and Regsvcs? Thanks