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Intended for developers familiar with C# or Visual Basic .NET, this book introduces the key .NET technologies from a distributed programming point of view, and recommends how to build the parts of a distributed application so that they will perform reliably and can scale to support large numbers of clients. The final section presents a sample sales invoice solution, order fulfillment system, and work request application that integrate the technologies discussed.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Make the jump to distributed application programming using the .NET Frameworkand introduce a new level of performance, scalability, and security to your network and enterprise applications. Expert .NET developer Matthew MacDonald shares proven techniques for fully exploiting .NET Remoting, XML Web services, and other .NET technologies and integrating them into your real-world solutions. MacDonald digs into key .NET building blocks and architectural issues, explaining which features and designs will best serve your customized distributed application projectsand when to use them. Case studies with full code examples illustrate these practical techniques in action, as well as demonstrating their benefits and tradeoffs.Learn how to: " Cross application boundaries with .NET Remoting, XML Web services, and Message Queuing" Create responsive clients and scalable servers with multithreading" Model your distributed application with interfaces, facades, and factories" Use COM+ services such as object pooling, JIT activation, and transactions" Craft a data transfer plan with Microsoft ADO.NET?without concurrency errors" Help secure your code end to end?from the transport level to the presentation tier" Learn ways to avert?or unclog?performance bottlenecks in your applications" Automate deployment using self-updating applications and XML Web services" Master stateless programming and other best practices for distributed applications

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In this chapter, we start on the ground floor and ask what distinguishes a distributed application from any other program. Read the first page Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful: Required reading for any enterprise developer., July 6, 2003 Reviewer: Brian Schkerke (St. Charles, MO USA) - See all my reviews This book uses Visual Basic.NET and not C# for it's examples. If I were to list any one particular disappointment I had with this book, it would be that. However it's extremely easy to port VB.NET code to C# and vice versa, and VB.NET code is a little easier to read and understand. With that out of the way this book completely rocks. It should be required reading for any enterprise application developer. The title is a bit deceptive in that you believe the book concentrates on NET Remoting and XML Web Services; it does concentrate more on those topics than any other, but only to the extent necessary - you never feel like he's repeating himself. Also included is a comprehensive examination of threads, messaging (Microsoft Message Queue Server), advanced remoting, deployment, logging, security - everything. I'm a self taught developer and there are a lot of holes in my knowledge that I know exist. This book single handedly filled in more of those holes than any other book I've read in recent memory. Gestalt after gestalt followed as I consumed this book over the course of a weekend. Someone once called me and asked if I had seriously posted the review of the Access Developer's Handbook. (My name is, ah, unique.) It was a glowing review like this one, and he doubted that a real person had posted it. I'm a real person, and this is really my opinion of this book. If you can afford it, buy it. You will not regret it. Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

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Very useful, highly recommended!, May 29, 2005 Reviewer: Yongsheng Yang (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews    This book is very useful and well written! #1. It covers most of important things in architecture design in enterprise development. #2. It is easy to read. Easy to understand. To the point and a efficient learning tool. #3. It is very accurate. With picky eyes, I have not found any inaccuracies so far. (Technology advancement will make some comments out-of-date, but that would be another story). #4. You do not have to use web service or remoting for this book to be greatly helpful. #5. It appears that the author knows every corner of distributed system design to a great depth. Last comment/advice to Microsoft - Microsoft should invest more on this kind of quality books if it wants drag more IT projects on .Net and to defeat the competing platforms. I recommend this book to IT professionals. 5 stars of course. Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Informative as well as suprisingly useful for 70-310, November 30, 2004 Reviewer: acd-mcdba "acd-mcdba" (Adelaide, Australia) - See all my reviews Having recently passed 70-310, I found this book to be exceedingly helpful in cementing certain .NET distributed concepts for the exam-- meanwhile, related MCAD/MCSD study guides like those from Sybex and Microsoft (?!) came up short... Chapters 1-9 of this book provided clear explanations and working examples for 70% of the content I encountered on my recent exam, while topics covered equally well in Chapters 11-15 accounted for the remaining 30%. Even Windows Services can be found about mid-way through Chapter 7. If you are keen on moving into distributed .NET programming and/or preparing for 70-310 (like me), I would highly recommend this book. I would not have earned my MCAD credential without it... Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Good Microsoft N-tier Architecture Text, November 26, 2004 Reviewer: W. Hazard (E. Windsor, NJ) - See all my reviews    Solid information for those interested in building N-tier architectures in a Microsoft world. Great stuff on how to build business objects -- I haven't found much on Microsoft object caching except in this book. Sadly, MS hasn't gone as deep as JBoss, BroadVision or similar products but this book helps fill the gap. Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Excelent Book for Planning a System, August 26, 2004 Reviewer: BERNARDO H. N. SILVA "Bernardo Heynemann" (Rio de Janeiro, RJ) - See all my reviews    This book won't tell you every single thing about .Net Remoting, Web Services, Com+ or Message Queueing, but since it gives you a lot of info on all those techs and a lot of others it's the perfect book for people who plan on creating Distributed Applications. I have read it full now and it helped me a LOT in my work. I work as an application developer at a bank and I'm supposed to do the company workflow system. It has to be very scalable so I needed to build a distributed architecture. This book helped me building this architecture and getting it approved by the board. Great Book! Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Great survey of distributed apps, July 4, 2004 Reviewer: Roy Pardee (POULSBO, WA USA) - See all my reviews The author has a real gift for explaining the details of the diverse technologies ms offers for creating distributed apps. An excellent book. Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

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