Com+

Hello all......I have been developing apps/web apps for 3 years now. I am moving on in my knowledge and I want to start developing applications that maniplulate the OS itself...for example I want to start by developing a web based app that configures IIS/DNS.......The prob is I have no clue where to start...amm I right by thinking I would start by learning COM/COM+ development...or is there a build in object in windows??.....any help/direction would be very helpful....just a kick in the right dorection...

THanks alll very much


D6

Nope, COM/COM+ absolutely bite. .NET is supposedly a partial replacement for those dilapidated old pieces of garbage. Windows crashed? Blame it on COM. Program crashed? Blame it on COM. File got eaten? Blame it on COM.

If you're going to start using something like that on Windows, move into .NOT er... .NET. As for manipluating the OS, what do you mean? C/C++ and Perl can both play around (to some extent) with the environment. If you want to be able to dig a little deeper (and I do mean little) into the windoze API, try Visual Basic or VC++. All depends on exactly what you're looking for.

If you want to manipulate a Microsoft server programatically, you should first check out their different SDK's. Libraries like CDO allow you program their servers to perform various tasks. These are high-level wrappers around COM/COM+ objects that make them easier to use.

If these libraries don't provide you with the power you need, then you're probably going to have to dig deeper into the lower-level APIs. This will involve some COM/COM++/ATL programming.

Looking to the future, if you can do something using .NET languages, this probably would be a good choice since MS seems to moving strongly in that direction.


http://www.wrox.com/books/1861002068.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...nts_library.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ef/psdkwelc.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...sp/prog7hwl.asp

I have d/l all windows SDK's, i will be buying some books...and coding away......ADSI is also what I need to look into.....