January 2005 - Posts

• System.Transactions in Whidbey - Part 1 - Overview

  Transactions have received a very elaborate revamp in .NET V2. Now things are unified and bring a very real and usuable framework that facilates consistency in any form of state transformation, as transactions are not only a database thing after all! Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 11, 2005 1:44 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - Enterprise Services, - .NET, - Whidbey, - SQL Server, - SO and SOA, - Transactions, - Architecture

• IIS6 and Windows 2003 (Part 8)

  There is one feature of IIS 6.0 that I have not expanded on yet and this is the Metabase. As you know, the Metabase is where IIS stores it configuration and in IIS6.0 the Metabase is in a human readable XML format. This allows for great flexibility, as Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 11, 2005 1:06 PM by no1138 | 1 Comments Filed under: - IIS 6

• IIS6 and Windows 2003 (Part 7)

  As I mentioned in IIS6 and Windows 2003 (Part 6) , another aspect of the new architecture in IIS 6 that I find very interesting is the new process model, which is called Worker Process Isolation Mode (WPIM). The first hint that things are different in Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:45 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - IIS 6

• Whitepaper: The .NET Framework and the Microsoft Enterprise Application Development Platform

  This paper, the first in the Microsoft Enterprise Application Development Strategy series, describes the comprehensive Microsoft enterprise application development platform for building connected systems. It covers the core components of this platform, including the support for core standards and service orientation that enable each element to interoperate with elements provided by different software vendors. Read More... Posted Monday, January 10, 2005 6:46 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - .NET, - Indigo, - SO and SOA

• 64bit Framework documentation on MSDN.

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/64bit/default.aspx Read More... Posted Monday, January 10, 2005 5:11 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - The 64bit World

• Interoperability Webcast Month

  Next week sees the start of a month of Interoperability Webcast Month - January 18 – February 11, 2005 . In the mean time, if you are looking for resources on Interoperability between .NET and Java/J2EE, you may find some of the following resources useful! Read More... Posted Monday, January 10, 2005 4:49 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - Web Services, - .NET, - Indigo, - SO and SOA, - Architecture

• Omri Gazitt talks about what Microsoft is doing with Web Services

  Omri Gazitt is the product unit manager on the advanced Web Services team. The folks at Channel9 ask him, What is Microsoft doing with Web Services? you can see the video at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=34980#34980 Ciao, P. Read More... Posted Monday, January 10, 2005 4:29 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - Web Services, - Indigo, - SO and SOA

• Silicon is no longer cheaper than protein!

  As blogged by Harry Pierson and Larry Osterman , Herb Sutter has written a great article on how major processor manufacturers and architectures have run out of room with most of their traditional approaches to boosting CPU performance. This is a must Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 05, 2005 6:33 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - Performance and Testing, - .NET, - The 64bit World, - Transactions