Articles, Publications, and Presentations

MSDN Article: Integrating WCF Services with COM+

This article will detail step by step instructions to consume COM+ application services from WCF clients. We will also discuss how legacy applications can use applications that expose WCF services built on .NET 3.0. Read...

Book: Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation

Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation is a complete guide to WCF from the SOA architecture perspective and shows you why WCF is important to web service development and architecture. Read...

MSDN Webcast: WCF Impact on the Enterprise

In this session the Avanade authors of Pro WCF (Chris Peiris, Dennis Mulder, Shawn Cicoria & Amit Bahree) dive deep into the business benefits of implementing an SOA application with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF is a unified framework for the developing distributed applications. The presenters will discuss various topics that are related to any SOA Enterprise scale applications. They are Service enabling existing applications (VB6/COM+), How WCF complements Biztalk and ESB, Hosting options, Unified Programming Model, Queue Management & Guaranteed Delivery of messages, Transaction Support, Federated Security Model, Interoperability with other platforms (i.e. Axis 2) and Security options available. The presenters will also share their views on best practices, misperceptions and common pitfalls surrounding SOA Enterprise Application Development with WCF View...

MSDN Webcast: Hosting Options, COM+ Integration & P2P model

In this session the authors of Pro WCF (Chris Peiris, Dennis Mulder, Shawn Cicoria & Amit Bahree) dive deep into implementing a SOA applications on the Microsoft platform using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF is a unified framework for the developing distributed applications. WCF enables developers to reuse existing investments in COM+ and other legacy technologies. It also enables SOA application development by utilizing all the recent WS-* standards. In this session the presenters will discuss topics such as hosting options, consuming and securing services as well as integrating with legacy (COM+) applications and data serialization by using practical examples. The session is a mix of majority of live demos and slides targeted towards technical audience. View...

Blog Post: Additional Stuff on Integrating WCF Services with COM+

In my (along with Chris Peiris) MSDN article (Integrating WCF Services with COM+), there were a few things I wanted to change, but given the edit review cycle, I decided to wait until it was published and just blog about some additional concepts. What follows are just a couple of extra pictures that give a view of how WCF ServiceModel.ComIntegration works in regards to calling COM+ Components from WCF Clients. Read...

Blog Post: Consuming WCF Services from COM using C++

How to dynamically consume a WCF services (late bind) from C++ using COM. The root of the capability lies in the moniker implementation, which is provided for inside of System.ServiceModel.ComIntegration. There's a series of types, attribute type as well, that the ServiceModel framework will build up the COM client along with the interfaces based upon a "GetObject" call from VB or even C++. Read...

Article: Http.sys in WinXP SP2: What It Means with Windows Communication Foundation

When Windows 2003 Server was released, Microsoft introduced the HTTP API and the Kernel mode Http.sys driver. With the W2K3 release, the first applications integrated with the new API was IIS 6.0 and consequently ASP.NET based applications. The HTTP API significantly raised the performance of HTTP server based applications. Read...

Article: Accessing Application Configuration Settings from SQL CLR

Recently, one of my peers asked a question regarding the ability of SQL CLR classes to read configuration data from an Application Configuration file. After doing some quick Google searches on the topic, I came up with a couple of links that indicated the potential, but no concrete HOWTO on getting it all wired up. Read...

User group: Northern New Jersey .NET Users Group

Meeting since March 2003, the mission of N3UG is to develop Northern New Jersey’s software development community. Our goal is to bring together .NET developers, architects, managers, and individuals with an interest to hear industry leaders and guest speakers in a forum which promotes an exchange of knowledge and experiences within the .NET development platform. Visit...

User group: NY Connected Systems User Group

Uniting individuals, in the greater NYC area, interested in the design, implementation, deployment, and support of Enterprise Integration solutions using the Microsoft Connected Systems product stack. Visit...