The movie "O Brother Where Art Thou?" is a retelling of Homer's Odyssey, but updated to appeal to a new audience and a new time. In many ways this is true of EnterpriseServices in the .NET Framework, as it is basically COM+ updated to work in the new .NET environment.
It is easy to say that EnterpriseServices in .NET gives us access to all the COM+ features. While this is accurate, it really isn't sufficient because it may lead you to believe that you should just continue to use COM+ services in .NET just as you did in COM, only with a different name.
The reality is that some of the overwhelmingly positive benefits COM+ offered to COM development aren't so overwhelmingly positive in .NET. In other cases, features of COM+ that were unavailable to Visual Basic 6.0 developers are fully accessible when developing in Visual Basic .NET. Like "O Brother Where Art Thou?" the underlying story is similar, but there are differences from the original.
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