Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C# .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework

OBJECTIVES This chapter covers the following Microsoft-specified objective for the "Creating and Managing Microsoft Windows Services, Serviced Components, .NET Remoting Objects, and XML Web Services" section...

Large-scale enterprise applications have special requirements: They need to be secure, reliable, available, efficient, and scalable. Of course, programmers can write tons of code and...

Historically, enterprise applications were written as large monolithic programs that ran on powerful but expensive mainframe computers. Over time, with experience developing monolithic applications and...

When COM+ was developed, COM was the prevalent component development technology. Therefore COM+ was developed with COM in mind. COM+ recognizes only COM components; any...

In this section, you'll learn about the basic components of the COM+ architecture. You'll learn how a COM+ application is organized, how COM+ provides the...

From the discussion in the previous sections, you know that it is easy to create a serviced component—all you need to do is to inherit...

Although you know how to create and consume a serviced component, it's of little use unless you use one of the automatic services provided by...

Chapter Summary Enterprise applications have special needs for availability, reliability, scalability, and performance. COM+ provides an infrastructure that provides common services required for an enterprise application. KEY...

Exercises Exposing Serviced Components via .NET Remoting In an enterprise application, you may be required to expose business objects remotely. A general practice in that case is...