Last month the team spent the day presenting the new new Indigo at the VSLive! conference. It was the first time out since PDC 03 and shows a very different different build which is well on the way to our March CTP release. The video is here.

Of course, after watching all the content, you'll want to skip back to 14 minutes into the Indigo Upgrade and Interoperability talk to see Steve and Anand discuss and demo the MSMQ and COM+ integration capabilities.

The line that you can't make out, to expose the interface from the COM+ app as a WS-* service, is the following 1 step process:

ComSvcConfig add /application:BookSample /interface:BookLogic.BookSales,IBookFinance hosting:complus

Easy enough? Comments are welcome.

On the Excel client demo the complete code to call a WS-* web service is as follows:

Dim BookFinanceService As IBookFinance
   
Set BookFinanceService = GetObject( "service:address=net.tcp://INTLIVE/BookService, binding=customBinding, bindingconfig=TcpBinding" )
   
Range("b6") = BookFinanceService.ChargeCard(Range("b2"), Range("b3"), Range("b4"))

Useable enough? Comments are welcome here too.