Florin Lazar - Consistency Checkpoint

The Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/default.mspx The MSDTC changes are similar to the ones described at http://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar...

Don Box has a section dedicated to Transactions on his wiki page at http://pluralsight.com/wiki/default.aspx/Don.TransactionAsks

Felipe Cabrera, Chris Kurt and Don Box have an update to the white paper on Web Services Architecture at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/introWSA.asp There are two paragraphs that talk about transactions...

Service Pack 2 adds to Windows XP the same level of security as in Windows Server 2003 for XA transactions (transactions that are used with XA-compliant resource managers like Oracle, IBM DB/2 etc). See my previous post at http://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar...

This is about an old article posted in MSDN Magazine but I want to make sure you didn't miss the paragraphs about System.Transactions that Don put together in " A Guide to Developing and Running Connected Systems with Indigo ": “Indigo also provides significant...

MSDTC offers two types of propagation for transactions: Export/Import (the most known one) and Transmitter/Receiver . The semantic difference between the two is that the Export/Import is a " push " model (the transaction is "pushed" to the remote machine...

Today, in most of the cases, transactions (distributed or not) are used in combination with ADO.NET (System.Data). Angel Saenz-Badillos talks about ADO.NET and Whidbey in his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/angelsb/ Consequently he talks about our System...

The most used feature of System.EnterpriseServices or COM+ is the distributed transaction support. And the automatic transaction programming model in ES using attributes ([Transaction] and [AutoComplete]) is great and nice but (it is always a but!).....

Currently in .Net Framework (v1.0 and v1.1) the support for transactions is offered by System.EnterpriseServices and by the System.Data.IDbTransaction, implemented by one of your favorite data provider (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp...

Richard Turner takes us on the road to Indigo: http://blogs.msdn.com/richturner666/ . You'll find there Q&A about Indigo, guidelines on writing your apps today to be prepared for an easy migration to Indigo tomorrow and a lot more.

Compare the performance of native COM+ and .Net Enterprise Services components and read some guidelines on how to get your EnterpriseServices to run faster at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncomser/html/entsvcperf.asp...

The preview (RC2) of Windows XP Service Pack 2 is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx The general info about it can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/productinfo/XPSP2/default...

Bob Muglia presents the Windows Server roadmap: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/muglia_winserver.asp . He also mentions Indigo twice.

I've been talking for a while about MSDTC and transactions without explaining them. I know many of you reading this blog already know the terms, but some of the developers just entering the enterprise space don't know if they should care or not about...

By default, distributed transactions will not work when at least one of the computers involved (client, middle-tier or database) is part of a Windows workgroup. This is due to the fact that Windows workgroups do not provide the necessary security infrastructure...

These are the newsgroups you should use when looking for answers related to COM+, Enterprise Services or MSDTC: microsoft.public.platformsdk.complus_mts and microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.component_services . For Indigo answers, use microsoft.public...

As part of Microsoft Longhorn Developer Preview , Clemens Vasters talks more about Indigo @ http://codezone.info/en/downloads/indigo.ppt One of the main services Indigo will provide is transactions. See the slides for more info.

If you are writing applications using ASMX, Remoting or Enterprise Services today, the impact of Indigo ’s arrival can be immediate if you want to make it so. If you code your applications today following the guidelines explained by Joe Long @ http...

In case you are wondering if .Net will provide support for local and distributed transactions outside COM+/EnterpriseServices, the answer is yes, System.Transactions will do that. A preview of this namespace is available at http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft...

You (i.e. your login account) don’t have to be a member of local Administrators group to do your daily tasks on your computer, including developing software. It might take a while to get used to it, but with time it will be as normal as using the...

Starting with Windows XP and continuing with Windows Server 2003, the account under which MSDTC service runs must be "NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService" ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cossdk/htm/pgdtc_admin_7gkz.asp ). ...

ITransaction::Commit can return XACT_E_INDOUBT, without giving you any information about the outcome of the transaction. This can happen if the connection between the MSDTC proxy and the TM was lost. The transaction may have committed or aborted. The...

I always enjoyed reading history. I like to see how things evolved. Sometimes there are funny stories, sometimes there are sad stories. But there is always something to learn from history. It is sad we don't have the time and physical capacity to learn...

MSDTC , COM+ or EnterpriseServices are allowing you to specify an isolation level for transactions so that you can increase concurrency to improve performance and scalability. But, the value you set for the isolation level is used by MSDTC only to...

I spent 4 hours looking on the web for a camcorder. In reality most of this time I was reading reviews about resellers. Until I found this PC World article: Web buyer beware . And all the research ended. Now I know why those websites sell products...