All About Interop

Microsoft's forthcoming Visual Studio Team System will include source code control, integrated defect tracking, testing, reports, and a bunch of other project management and project governance tools and capabilities. All built in and integrated. BUT! That does not mean that there are not other options, even open source options....

Over on the Code Project, CastorTiu posted an article about using Oracle Advanced Queues from within .NET . I missed the article when it posted about a month ago, but I'm sure it will be interesting to .NET developers who use Oracle in mission-critical...

Interop and Date or Time values While many people have moved beyond the fundamentals and are working on secure, reliable, transacted webservices , or on adding those kinds of quality-of-service to other interop mechanisms, the fundamental data-type...

This just came across, a case study from Microsoft on interop. KLA-Tencor . Not much technical detail there, but if you are trying to convince your management that interop between Java and .NET is possible, it may provide some supporting evidence.

A new paper on MSDN, comparing LINQ to EJB and others....

Scott Bertinato of CIO Magazine had an article in the December 11th issue entitled, ".Net, Web Services, and the End of the Vendor Era". Ok, I know CIO is a business magazine and not very technical, but this particular piece is all about stuff near...

Comparing Transactional Performance with MQSeries: System.Transactions vs System.EnterpriseServices SwC I spent some time measuring the performance of the new System.Transactions APIs in .NET v2.0, comparing it to the performance of transaction using...

PCF with IBM's MQ Classes for .NET For about 2 years IBM has been providing a supported class library that allows .NET apps to connect to MQSeries. There has always been PCF capability in the class library, but it's not documented and I suppose not...

Using config files to set transaction timeout for System.Transactions ....

Microsoft, along with IBM and SAP, announced they will close down their respective nodes in the public UDDI Business Registry, also known in our AHI as the UBR. [AHI = acronym-happy industry] Microsoft's UBR is here , IBM's , etc). The companies published...

The Microsoft RSS team announced that they've come to an agreement with Mozilla to use the same icon for RSS. Does this count as interop? https://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2005/12/14/503778.aspx

I have just updated the article on System.Transactions , originally penned by Juval Lowy and published in March 2005. The update includes some clarifications and extensions to the original paper, especially around the Lightweight Transaction manager and...