Just Coding : TechEd

donBox on DCOM

rido — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:44:00 GMT

Yesterday I saw Dbox talking about service orientation, he was comparing different transport mechanisms as:

HTTP / HTTPS (ASMX approach)
DCOM (Com +)
MSMQ (NT Service)

Note Remoting is not in the list, this is because Don didn't like Remoting for different reasons, Performance, Security and Versioning.

Some years ago, maybe in the TechEd I've heard DCOM it's not a good approach for the future, and Remoting it's the best way to connect two machines running the .Net Fx.

There are different articles in MSDN comparing Remoting vs. Web Services, but I didn't found anything about Remoting vs DCOM or WS vs DCOM. And this is because the marketing machinery of MS talked about Remoting as the "substitution / evolution" of DCOM.

But now Don is talking about DCOM as a reasonable approach, and his comments about Remoting were ridicule saying sentences like

".. Remoting is a funny and little Technology to build funny and little apps"…

Now don works as architect in the Indigo team, and of course they promise this will be the definitive solution for the Distributed Object, should we trust Don?

TechEd Preconference

rido — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:13:00 GMT

The TechEd starts tomorrow, however I got a chace to assist to the "PreConferece" sessions, and I have choosen "Guidance about Patterns and Practices", we got late so we started with F. Guerrero talking about DataAccessApplicationBlock. Nothing new under the sun, but it's interesting to hear this guy talking about the design of this Block, the transaction support and so on...

An interesting trick: Set the application name in the Connection String, very useful while debugging with the profiler.

TechEd 2004 Europe

rido — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:26:00 GMT

Which are the most exciting topics we will learn in TechEd04?

I expect to assist sessions covering

Yukon
VS Whidbey
VS Team System
Unit Tests from VS
Biztalk Server 2004

Also I would like to hear some Longhorn info from WinFS to Avalon

C U There