If the Component Services console is used to shut down a COM+ Application while there are active threads, what happens to those active threads that the COM+ application created to service the client calls? Are they forcibly closed, or are they allowed to complete before the application is shut down?
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No, the client processes are not forcebly closed. However, if they attempt to use the COM object that they hold pointer to, the out-of-process marshaling code will either give an error back, or the server will be restarted and the the code inside the server be called.
I have mostly seen the former, but I've seen the later too, although I cannot vouch that there wasn't some additional "magic" involved that re-started the terminated server.