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>In other words, Component Service provide an environment to execute COM objects in a much more controlled way than it is possible with plain COM. It's an infrastructure.
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>IIS uses this infrastructure to implement the its own idea of virtual directories and applications. So, those are not different things, it's just a different way to get there. For IIS, a virtual directory is a COM+ application, if protectection is enabled.
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Thanks Christof,

You answered my questions.