...if a single database (SQL Server 2005) is used - no DTC needed! Transaction Promotion and Delegation will be supported by Enterprise Services! More information in Paul Fallon's Blog Transaction Promotion and Delegation coming soon to ES Transactions in Whidbey . Christian Sample chapter about ES Transaction...

The C# access modifier internal defines access is only allowed within the assembly. This is what .NET 1.0 defined. With .NET 2.0 friend assemblies are allowed to access these members, too. Friend assemblies are defined with the attribute class InternalsVisibleToAttribute: [assembly:InternalsVisibleTo...

Microsoft outlined the roadmap for Project Green : Wave 1: 2005-2007 Common role-based shared user interface with Office integration Interoperability with service-oriented applications SQL Server Reporting Services as the default reporting environment SharePoint Portal Server as intranet or extranet...

Krysztof Cwalina blogged about new naming guidelines for generic types . The BCL team considers remaning several of the BCL generic types. Some provisional examples: EventHandler<TEventArgs> Converter<TInput, TOutput> Dictionary<TKey, TValue> Votes are still counted. There's a long...

Krzysztof Cwalina blogs about a proposal to refactor these new interfaces . Currently the interface IComparable<T> defines the methods CompareTo and Equals . Because not always all methods are needed, the new version might be two interfaces: IEquateable<T> and IComparable<T> . I prefer...

.NET 2.0 has many new classes to access the Active Directory and other directory services. The new namespace System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory offers classes to control and manage the Active Directory. System.DirectoryServices.Protocols offers classes to access directory services with the Web...

Kevin Dente has a problem with generics as not being CLS compliant . With Longhorn generics will be CLS compliant . In the meantime with CLS compliant assemblies this can be done: using generics within the classes is not a problem having generic classes as arguments of public/protected methods, both...

Kevin Ransom , Development Lead of the Microsoft Business Framework starts blogging ! In the first blog Kevin writes about the features of the framework . The Business Framework is based on Whidbey, ObjectSpaces , Whitehorse... Very interesting are also the comments Kevin made about some questions: the...

Jason Zander has a really good blog about NGen - he talks about the advantages of NGen, and where it should / should not be used. Jason also gives some Future Directions on this tool that we may see at PDC: ngen /repair - fixing up cached images New API's - application out of date? query the state, force...

...if a single database (SQL Server 2005) is used - no DTC needed! Transaction Promotion and Delegation will be supported by Enterprise Services! More information in Paul Fallon's Blog Transaction Promotion and Delegation coming soon to ES Transactions in Whidbey . Christian Sample chapter about ES Transaction...