NGWS SDK Documentation  

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COM+ 1.0 Services, NGWS Frameworks and Runtime, and VS7

Today customers use tools such as VB6 to build components. They install them in the Windows 2000 Component Services (aka COM+ 1.0 Services) or NT4 MTS to get services. Moving forward they are going to build the components in Visual Studio 7 and then install them in Windows 2000 Component Services to get services such as transactions, object pooling and activity semantics.

Using Visual Studio 7 and the NGWS frameworks and runtime provides a number of advantages, namely better tools and a much better runtime. The NGWS runtime managed languages are a lot better.

Using this new technology it will be possible to eliminate a lot of the legacy perf problems that VB used to have (e.g. apartment threading, heavy use of TLS) that enable them to take advantage of new Windows 2000 Components Services features like object pooling to build more scalable, higher performance applications.