COM, COM+, DCOM, where to start?

Question

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)

Answer 1

Essential COM is especially for implementing or using COM components from C++, without using an IDE, framework, or library to help.

COM is trivial to use from VB or from Delphi, for example, which hide the COM-specific glue from the application programmer. In C++ you'd often use some class library that tries to abstract the details ... Essential COM will tell you what those details are (and kind of implements its own library/framework in doing so).