| Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework is the only book that experienced .NET developers need to learn how to write distributed, service-oriented applications that take full advantage of Microsoft Enterprise Services. Filled with clear, runnable examples in C# (with Visual Basic .NET examples available on the Web), this book will quickly get you up to speed on building distributed applications with serviced components.Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, and veteran author Christian Nagel starts you off with an overview of Enterprise Services and a guide to when and how to use them appropriately and effectively. He introduces and clearly explains the four major services included in this technology: Automatic Transactions Queued Components Loosely Coupled Events Role-Based SecurityFrom his in-depth coverage, you'll learn How to create a serviced component, how serviced objects are activated, and the different kinds of object contexts How to manage concurrency and synchronization for serviced components to achieve optimal performance and data integrity How to integrate COM components with the .NET Framework How to use serviced components over a network with DCOM, SOAP Services, and ASP.NET Web servicesand when to choose one mechanism over another How to safely and efficiently read and write from a database using ADO.NET How to use .NET Enterprise Services transactions to achieve Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability How to build a compensating resource manager to allow your own resources to participate in Enterprise Services transactions How to maintain application state in a client application, into a serviced component, in shared properties, or in a databaseand when to use each location How to use message queues to create Queued Components that automatically make distributed applications robust in an intermittently connected environment How to create and use Loosely Coupled Events using COM+ How to secure a distributed solution using authorization, authentication, impersonation, and confidentiality How to deploy and configure Enterprise Services applicationsNagel then looks ahead to Indigo, Microsoft's next-generation technology for building distributed applications, giving you a glimpse at how the technology works and how it compares to Enterprise Services. Finally, he develops a distributed solution for course management, taking the example all the way from a Use Case diagram to a worked-out database design, component libraries, serviced components, transactions, Windows Forms client, and Web service. |
