Microsoft .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting
March 10, 2010 by BPELworld.com
Product Description
Make the jump to distributed application programming using the .NET Framework—and 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 projects—and 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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The author has a real gift for explaining the details of the diverse technologies ms offers for creating distributed apps. An excellent book.
Rating: 5 / 5
While this tome does have some useful information in it, the reader would be better served by reading a single case study in which the reader actually learns how to produce a real-world solution. This book attempts to provide coverage of a wide range of topics in a disjointed and rambling fashion. Heavy on theory, light on application, the reader is bored silly after the first hundred pages and is referred to Microsoft’s website for case studies worth anything. The title of this book (and the reason people buy it) is very misleading. A more accurate title would be something like “A sampling of distributed application technologies — past and present.” This book has a purely academic tone to it. The bottom line is — theory won’t put bread on the table, unless of course you are a writer or a professor. Good luck.
Rating: 2 / 5
Matthew MacDonald shows clearly how to write enterprise class applications with VB.NET. Happy to read a lot about threading, COM+ explanations, messaging, remoting and other advanced concepts along with good case studies, in VB.NET. The book is real strong in both concepts and code.
Rating: 5 / 5
The front & back cover didn’t mention that the book’s examples are all in Visual Basic.Net. It would have been nice to know that, since I bought the book expecting C#. I wouldn’t recommend the book unless the reader is fluent in Visual Basic.NET… or unless the author posts C# versions of the example code on the book’s companion website.
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this book both to help me study for a certification exam and to broaden my understanding of distributed app dev. Like many, I am very experienced with non-distributed Web and Windows apps using VB.NET and am not as strong in many of the subjects covered in this book. Through the half of the book I have read so far, the author introduces and explains new, complex topics at a quick but understandable pace and with solid code examples. Many technical books tend to be written disjointedly with lots of grammetical mistakes, like they were hurried to print too soon. This is well-written. And it covers almost every topic that I need to understand for architecting real distributed applications.
Rating: 5 / 5