April 2007 Entries
I am currently considering migration from .NET Remoting to Windows Communication Foundation. One of the problems I have to resolve is the existence of remote objects in my current design. The simplicity of remote reference programming model in .NET Remoting is great but also very dangerous (mainly for application performance). I found such a statement in the article describing migration From .NET Remoting to the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): The simplicity for passing remote references...
In the last blog I wrote about Windows Communication Foundation performance comparison. The document available here: A Performance Comparison of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) with Existing Distributed Communication Technologies. I am mainly interested in the comparison of WCF and .NET Remoting. I decided to perform my own research on that topic. Here is what I tested: SingleCall service - the simplest .NET Remoting service type Data Transfer Object is DataSet - I believe it is the common...
I' ve just found Windows Communication Foundation performance comparison.It is available here: A Performance Comparison of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) with Existing Distributed Communication Technologies The article compares the WCF to Web Service (asmx), WSE 2.0/3.0, Enterprise Services and .NET Remoting. I am very interested in the comaprison of the WCF to the remoting as it is something I extenisevely use. I will peroform my own comparison with one of my existing servises to check if...
I've been recently looking for a way to expose web services without IIS (directly from my windows service). I found two ways of doing that: Windows Communication Foundation Web Service Enhancements 3.0 The first one (WCF) requires change of my application architecture so I decided to try the WSE 3.0; It can be downloaded from here: Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 for Microsoft .NET. I followed those steps: Step 1. I created an ordinary Web Service that looks like this:[WebService(Namespace =...
For the last few years I try to find the best way to rganize myself. I try to find a way how to organize both, tasks and knowledge, so it could be easily maintainable and clearly visible. I try to organize my knowledge and tasks concerning my self-development. I tried few ways to achieved this; here is the list: Sticky notes - very powerful way of organizing tasks; it worked for a year; I woke up with more then 50 sticky notes that I was rewriting each time I finished some of tasks specified there...