Written to help developers use components of the operating system as an application server, this guide describes the four major functions included in Enterprise Services: automatic transactions, queued components, loosely coupled events and role-based security. Topics include the basics of building applications, working with object activation and contexts, including creating a service components, building in concurrency, providing COM interoperability including with .NET clients without this function, networking, developing transaction services, compensating resource management, managing state characteristics such as shared property, building in security, and coming up with efficient deployment and configuration. The guide also summarizes new distributed applications such as web services specifications and Indigo. Annotation ฉ2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Chapter1 Introducing .NET enterprise services
Chapte 2 Object activation and contexts
Chapte 3 Concurrency
Chapte 4 COM interop
Chapte 5 Networking
Chapte 6 Data access
Chapte 7 Transaction services
Chapte 8 Compensating resource management
Chapte 9 State management
Chapte 10 Queued components
Chapte 11 Loosely coupled events
Chapte 12 Security
Chapte 13 Deployment and configuration
Chapte 14 The future of distributed applications
Chapte 15 Case study