March 2004 - Posts
I have made several modifications and clarifications to my posting on SOAP Attachments following feedback from readers and some more internal research and discussion. Note that there were too many changes to highlight individually, so I do ask that you
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Many people are concerned about the performance of their Enterprise Services components compared to their old COM+ implementations. In order to discuss this issue, I (along with a couple of colleagues) wrote a paper published here on MSDN . The paper
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This year's TechEd will be a fun, exciting, feature-packed event to help you REALLY take advantage of Microsoft's existing technologies - proven techniques to help you leverage the most from this powerful platform. Many members of the team that owns Indigo,
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Tiago Pascoal discusses the tenet I declared here, that Services are autonomous . This is a particularly important tenet (hereafter referred to as the Autonomy Tenet) so let's discuss a little. I also had difficulty with this tenet when I first considered
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A reader kindly wrote: Rich, I am having a hard time determining what your updates to old posts are. If you could highlight updates in some way, it would be appreciated. Alas, this is one of the problems with using a blog as a way of centrally publishing
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I have just made a small change to my posting about Remoting , including details of WHY Indigo won't interop on the wire with Remoting (it's all in the encoding baby! :D)
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The following is an update to a posting I replied to in the 'microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.indigo' newsgroup regarding the question on what is Microsoft's story for handling attachments to SOAP based messages: This is a hard question to answer
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Clemens Vasters posts his musings on Service Orientation here and here - where he discussed a possible 5th tenet . It's interesting to note the feedback to his post where one reader asks “ How is a service different from a component's interface,
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How do I prepare my code and systems to ease my adoption of Indigo? This is a VERY hot topic based upon the questions we get asked daily by customers and partners. In this posting, I will be dealing with the following questions: “Which current technologies
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'Is .NET Remoting Dead?' [Updated] No ! Nope ! Niet ! Non ! Negative ! Nuh-huh ! [shake head vigorously] !!! This has been SUCH a hard message to communicate, so let’s make this VERY clear: .NET Remoting as we know it in the current .NET frameworks
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No sooner than I post an article on SO do the questions start flying in! Thanks for reading :) Just before I answer the question I want to make a broad point: Service Orientation (SO) is a concept, a paradigm, a mindset, an approach and is not tied to
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[Minor Updates - 8th June 2004] Bear with me ... let's just rewind time for a moment ... Objects abound: Back in the late 1980's, Object Orientation (OO) began changing the face of Software and Systems Architecture and rapidly became a mainstream concept.
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