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Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability released
The book Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability I have been pointing to over the past few months has finally been released on MSDN. This is another excellent resource from the Patterns and Practices group. Rico provides a great Forward...

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Checking out nTierGen
As you may know (those who read this blog), I spend a lot of my time architecting and developing enterprise/distributed applications using EnterpriseServices, .Net Remoting, and most recently WebServices and SOA-type applications. I do a lot of coding...

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I have enjoyed the opportunity to work with you, Sam
As Sam blogs today, the product we have worked on for the last 10 months is going public. That product is: bcgi Mobile Guardian ™. Mobile Guardian is a first-ever solution that gives carriers the ability to provide businesses and families the real...

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EnterpriseServices/COM+, DCOM, and Firewalls
If you are using an EnterpriseServices/COM+ Application Proxy that connects to an EnterpriseServices/COM+ Server Application on another box, you definitely want to consider using a firewall between the two. When you go from Box A to Box B using ES/COM...

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Further clarification
Apparently, my post on Distributed Data Security is getting some attention from Ian Griffiths and John Lam , two people I very much respect. I asked for feedback, and now I am getting some. I feel it is time for further clarification. When I wrote that...

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Custom Exceptions and EnterpriseServices, Part 2
I noticed yesterday the article on Throwing Custom Exception Types from a Managed COM+ Server Application that I blogged about previously is finally available publicly . This past week, we started implementing the first solution mentioned in the article...

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Clarification on distributed data security
Adrian Batemen wonders if I meant you would expose the data components at the point of physically separating tiers: First of all, I'd be reluctant to make the distribution break purely at the data access level. For me, the data access tier is all about...

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Distributed data security
In response to comments from Adrian Bateman , Tiago Pascoal , and others I would like to continue and elaborate on “Enterprise Distributed Computing in .NET”. Feedback is welcome. -------- When dealing with distributed computing, there are...

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Custom Exceptions in EnterpriseServices
Sam Gentile details some of the problems our team has run into over the past few months (not just our team, but others as well ) regarding the use of custom exceptions in Enterprise Services / COM+. The problem is that custom exceptions were not easily...

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Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
Another task I am working on is extensive performance and scalability testing for a large Distributed .Net project . Our approach is to set up tests early to determine load, stress, and scalability metrics, and to test often as work progresses. This helps...

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