For the last couple of years, I have been working within the COM+ team, within the broader Windows Communication Foundation ("Indigo") team and, as documented here, this has primarily involved the cat herding of COM+ Integration and a handful of supporting COM+ Vista features. Well, we’ve added in our last few features:

  • object reference parameter support for the ADO users
  • sessionless binding support for the basic profile users
  • broader VARIANT UDT support
  • a cleaner extensibility model without surrogates

I'll post more about these in the near future but, subject to any last minute high priority requests (very high bar), we are about done with COM+ Integration for WCF V1.0.

With these completing, as of a few months ago, I have picked up additional program management responsibilities for transaction support in WCF. For WCF v1.0, this bag includes WCF transactions, WS-AtomicTransaction support, WCF transaction configuration tools and System.IO.Log.

Takeaway: expect more transactions stuff and I’m interested in any feedback or questions on the transaction capabilities.

Until then, check out my transaction team colleagues: Max, Florin & Jim.