Wednesday, July 10, 2002

MSDN now has an Architecture Center, which is certainly a good thing. MS has always been great in providing good tools and a lot of information for devs but left architects often out in the cold. We've done some architectural whitepapers for Microsoft EMEA recently and it seems like MSDN is finally creating a home for such things. I hope that sub-portal will be successful. What's really surprising is that a link on the page actually points to the "Oppose Microsoft Group"  (as David Chappell always puts it so well). I guess one can take that as a sign that the COM vs. CORBA wars are over and dealt with. 10:42:48 PM      comment []

blogchalk: Stuff: COM+, .NET Framework, CLR, Enterprise Services, XML, Web Services, SOAP, WS-Security, Kerberos, Alien Abductions  Me: English, Germany, Meerbusch, Lank, Clemens, Male, 31-35! 10:21:12 PM      comment []

Ladies and Germs.. drumroll... I am a blogger now. I can't believe I just bought something online, so this Radio stuff better be good ;) I don't think I will be able to blog (I guess that's an official English verb by now) nearly as frequently as other people in the geek space, but then again it may really be fun and I may write more than I expect - we'll see. Tomorrow, newtelligence (which is a select group of smart folks I am delighted to be able to work with) will release the source code for the first Kerberos implementation of WS-Security on the .NET Framework (ASP.NET) under a BSD style-license. We'll also make the code for our TIP transaction stuff available, which allows propagation of COM+ transaction contexts across web service boundaries. The code is already packaged and we've done some build & deployment tests on virgin machines, so that it should work for you when we publish it. If it's not any good, blame me, because all errors must be my fault. I am writing a book on .NET Enterprise Services right now. Finally, I get to write a COM+ book ;) I started using COM rather early (OLE 2.0 Beta 1, Oct 1992), but was always hidden behind the iron curtain of a banking software company. When I decided to do my own thing (with the other guys), all books COM and COM+ had been written already. So I am rather happy to get a second chance now. It's going to cover all of the cool new things in COM+ 1.5 and I'll also explain some additonal hacks. But wait.... don't hold your breath if you can't read German. This is my first book in my native language and when I am done with that I will worry about a translation. So what I'll do is to share the weird things I find with you here, as well. Right now, for instance, I am finishing a sample that allows COM+ out-of-proc .NET serviced components to be rooted outside the System32 directory (by default the sit on dllhost.exe) and make that work with together with .NET's lazy registration feature for serviced components. At the same time, it provides integration with the System.Configuration infrastructure, which is quite difficult to do with System.EnterpriseServices as of today. It's somewhat of a bad hack using proxy attributes, the CodeDOM, registry tweaks and fumbling around with the COM+ catalog, but it works. More on that later...   9:37:14 PM      comment []

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