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• 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

• Transactions - The concepts - Part 3

  Today, as we write application code we generally are not dealing with immutable state/data, we are applying application logic to state/data so that it transforms from one known state to another known state in a consistent, all or nothing fashion. Today, Read More... Posted Sunday, December 12, 2004 11:54 PM by no1138 | 1 Comments Filed under: - Enterprise Services, - Web Services, - .NET, - Whidbey, - Indigo, - The 64bit World, - IIS 6 , - SQL Server, - COM, - SO and SOA, - Transactions, - Longhorn

• Transactions - The concepts - Part 2

  In general, when we think of Transactions we tend to think of database transactions. Databases are a great example of how a data server can implement transactions and therefore handle concurrency, provide isolation and provide consistency. The concept Read More... Posted Sunday, December 12, 2004 9:15 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - Enterprise Services, - .NET, - Whidbey, - Indigo, - The 64bit World, - IIS 6 , - SQL Server, - COM, - SO and SOA, - Transactions, - Longhorn, - Architecture

• Transactions - The concepts - Part 1

  When thinking about Transactions, I think it is fair to say that Transactions are one of the most powerful and frequently used paradigms in Enterprise Computing today. With Transactions, we have a collection of patterns that deal with how concurrency Read More... Posted Sunday, December 12, 2004 9:12 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - Enterprise Services, - Web Services, - .NET, - Whidbey, - Indigo, - The 64bit World, - IIS 6 , - SQL Server, - COM, - SO and SOA, - Transactions, - Architecture

• Volatile Transactions & In-Memory Transactions - do they have ACID, ACId or ACI properties?

  In my last blog posting, How should we think of Transactions ? I mentioned Volatile transactions and how I currently think they can be perceived in different ways! Do they have ACID, ACId or ACI properties? In case you do not know what Volatile Transactions Read More... Posted Sunday, December 12, 2004 5:07 PM by no1138 | 1 Comments Filed under: - Enterprise Services, - Web Services, - .NET, - Whidbey, - Indigo, - SQL Server, - COM, - SO and SOA, - Transactions

• IIS6 and Windows 2003 (Part 5)

  What is particularly interesting about HTTP.SYS is that it has an API and it can be used to write/roll your own HTTP endpoint. Nice!! Currently there is only a C API , but with Whidbey you have access to a managed API to HTTP.SYS. Here is a sample (via Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:24 PM by no1138 | 1 Comments Filed under: - XP SP2, - Web Services, - .NET, - Whidbey, - Indigo, - IIS 6 , - SQL Server

• IIS6 and Windows 2003 (Part 2)

  The most significant changes within the new architecture for IIS 6.0 are: a new process model called WPIM ( Worker Process Isolation Mode) Application Pooling and Recycling HTTP.SYS - it is a HTTP listener that is a kernel mode driver and is a common Read More... Posted Sunday, November 21, 2004 7:07 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - .NET, - Whidbey, - IIS 6

• IIS6 and Windows 2003 (Part 1)

  IIS6.0 has a new architecture with a number of additions and changes that you may not be unaware of. The new architecural changes are mainly involving the WWW Service within IIS 6.0 and how the processing of HTTP requests takes. There are lots of things Read More... Posted Sunday, November 21, 2004 7:06 PM by no1138 | 2 Comments Filed under: - Whidbey, - IIS 6

• Windows 64-bit Hands-On Training & Windows 64-bit Compatibility Workshops

  From Jan till July of next year, the Route64 Training Tour is visiting over 20 cities providing: Windows 64-bit Hands-On Training is a 3-day training designed to provide the most comprehensive contents of of what it takes to fully leverage Windows on Read More... Posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:57 PM by no1138 | 4 Comments Filed under: - .NET, - Whidbey, - The 64bit World, - SQL Server, - COM

• Christian Weyer is going to speak at the IrishDev User group next month

  Just spotted a reference to Dublin on the ASP.NET feed, so I had to have a look! Excellent!! Christian Weyer is coming to town and talking at a IrishDev user Group event and is covering a really good topic, "Visual Studio .NET's Web services wizardry Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:39 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - Web Services, - .NET, - Whidbey

• Visual Studio 2005 October 2004 Express Editions Community Technical Preview

  Here are the direct links to download the October 2004 community tech preview: Visual Basic: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/a/21a4b949-758c-4ff2-8381-1acb2a943bf9/vbsetup.exe Visual C++: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/9/6/996fe06a-08fb-459b-a7c4-35640b4f7bf3/vcsetup.exe Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:09 PM by no1138 | 2 Comments Filed under: - .NET, - Whidbey

• Eric Rudder is speaking at our next MSDN event, WOW!!

  Congratulations to our local DPE in Ireland , they really have out done themselves this time!! On Wed. the 3rd of Nov , we have a full day event that is jam packed with great sessions and exceptional speakers. The list of speakers includes Eric Rudder Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:20 PM by no1138 | 0 Comments Filed under: - Web Services, - .NET, - Whidbey, - Indigo, - MSDN, - SO and SOA

• The Web Browser control in Whidbey - Part 1

  When you look at all of the good stuff that is in Visual Studio 2005 (i.e. Visual Studio Whidbey) , its hard not to say WOW!! there is just so much good stuff in there. Things like Visual Studio Team System , the new productivity enhancements , ASP.NET Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:31 PM by no1138 | 2 Comments Filed under: - .NET, - Whidbey

• The Web Browser control in Whidbey - Part 2

  In the pre-release documentation for Visual Studio 2005 , you will find a How to: Add Web Browser Capabilities to Your Windows Forms Application , but I would like to show how easy this stuff has become, so I'll post a few screenshots and give you an Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:31 PM by no1138 | 3 Comments Filed under: - .NET, - Whidbey

• Edit and Continue support coming to C# in Visual Studio 2005

  Well lots of folks gave feedback that they would like to see C# support for Edit and Continue in Whidbey , and its on the way. See Soma's blog for the announcement . Congrats to all involved. Read More... Posted Friday, October 15, 2004 6:40 PM by no1138 | 1 Comments Filed under: - Whidbey