|
|
|
Jim Johnson's Blog
-
There are some WCF-related webcasts coming up during July, with monday's one on transactional WCF support. You can find links to them on the MSDN Webcasts site. This month's talks are: Webcast Title Date/ Time Presenter Transactional Windows Communication...
-
There was a tribute earlier today for Jim Gray at Berkley . I want to share some thoughts about Jim. I have had the privilege to know a lot of great engineers, a number of scarily bright people, a smaller number of truly wise people, and some solidly...
-
Parts 1 , 2 , and 3 covered most of the mainline MSDTC features that show up in WS2008. And now we come to the end with three more, relatively minor, topics: VSS integration, changes in XA support, and some changes in MSDTC tracing. VSS Integration This...
-
As I mentioned in parts 1 & 2 , WS2008 clusters are designed to have more than one functioning MSDTC instance. Once the DtcGetTransactionManager[Ex] had been upgraded to connect to multiple MSDTC instances simultaneously, the issues next focused on...
-
As a preamble, I have to point out that most customers have little to no trouble with MSDTC in a cluster. It has been a great solution for those that need transactional consistency and high availability. Nothing in this description should suggest otherwise...
-
Windows Server 2008 has a number of significant changes to MSDTC, addressing issues from performance, simplicity, and reach. These changes are the culmination of a stream of work that began with Vista, and was heavily influenced by .Net from 2.0 onwards...
-
You've undoubtedly read about the announcement last week to publish our protocol documents on msdn. If you've gone and looked , there's an extensive set of documents posted. You may also remember that I mentioned that I'd been involved in some projects...
-
I read a couple of weeks ago that HP is closing ZKO (Spitbrook Road, Nashua). I have a lot of fond memories of working in VMS development in ZKO1/1 (and later ZKO3/4) in the 80's and early 90's. It's sad to see that it is going. Of course I miss the people...
-
I have clearly been away for a while. This blog effectively shut down about 18 months ago. For the last few months I've been trying to figure out if I should reopen it, and I set a date of Jan 1 to make that decision. I've decided to attempt to return...
-
MSDTC has had a structure where there is a proxy (msdtcprx.dll) located in the user's process. This implemented the Oletx API, managed some local state, and a set of communication channels back to the MSDTC service (msdtc.exe). Much of the processing...
-
I have written earlier ( here and here ) about how to integrate the transactional file and registry services in Vista with System.Transactions. With the upcoming Vista RC update, there are a number of changes in the APIs for TxF and TxR that impact how...
-
Stephen Toub has written an interesting article on the construction of generic 'scope-like' classes over at .Net Matters. It captures a lot of the ideas that were behind TransactionScope and generalizes them nicely. Jim.
-
You may have noticed that this blog is getting nailed by a spam storm. The great guys at Pluralsight are working on it, but in the meantime replies have been disabled to try to slow it down. Hopefully things will be back to normal soon. Jim. UPDATE: Comments...
-
I recently took up nordic walking as a way for me to get some exercise on the way to work. So far I've enjoyed it, and it has taken about 6 minutes off my walk to work (bringing it down to 19 minutes). Today was an especially good day for this -- it was...
-
As you may have noticed, I started what looked to be a largish project on this blog, and then promptly stopped posting for 3 months. There are a number of reasons for that, all of which devolve down to 'things got a little busy at work'. It's been a pretty...
|
|
|
|
|
|