Throughout this book, you have learned that you should focus your development efforts on implementing business logic in your components and rely on COM+ to provide the component services and connectivity they need to operate. With .NET, Microsoft has reaffirmed its commitment to this development paradigm. From a configuration management point of view, the .NET integration with COM+ is superior to COM under Visual Studio 6.0 because .NET allows you to capture your design decisions in your code, rather than use the separate COM+ Catalog. This development is undoubtedly just the beginning of seamless support and better integration of the .NET development tools, runtime, component services, and the component administration environment. COM+ itself (see Appendix B) continues to evolve, both in features and in usability, while drawing on the new capabilities of the .NET platform. The recently added ability to expose any COM+ component as a web service is only a preview of the tighter integration of .NET and COM+ we can expect to see in the future.