>I already used an out-of-process EXE COM, but I observed that on the server side, there was a different instance for each client. Maybe I did somethng wrong and I will try it again.
>Thanks for your answer.


Yes you're doing something wrong - you need to compile the server as a MULTIUSE server. It will work as a singleton in that case.

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>Florin
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>>Florin,
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>>You can do what you want, but COM+ is not the way to do it. You can do this easily with an EXE COM component and setting it to Multi-use which is basically a Singleton object (multiple use of a single object) - each reference to it will be pointed at a single EXE.
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>>I can't remember now - I think a non-MT DLL can do this too within a single process by setting the server to SingleUse (Single Instances of the object).
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>>I know it sounds confusing but EXE and DLL servers behave completely opposite meanings in this case...
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