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no1138 1777 days ago
Omri Gazitt is the product unit manager on the advanced Web Services team. The folks at Channel9 ask him, What is Microsoft doing with Web Services? you can see the video at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=34980#34980 Ciao, P.
no1138 1806 days ago
In my last blog posting, How should we think of Transactions ? I mentioned Volatile transactions and how I currently think they can be perceived in different ways! Do they have ACID, ACId or ACI properties? In case you do not know what Volatile Transactions (aka In-Memory Transactions) are, they are transactions that do not persist to a durable store such as a hard disk (ouch! we have multiple definitions of durable to content with ). They are transactions that are done completely in memory and do not incur the I/O cost of writing to a hard disk a Transaction log or the actual known data/state. What is interesting about Volatile transactions is that they are sometimes perceived as not being Transactional, because they are viewed as not meeting the ACID properties, especially the "D" property. I suspect the main reason for this view is because there are no Transaction logs and/or no data stored to hard disk. So when you look at a typical definition of the ACID ...no1138 1806 days ago
So now the news is out, there is going to be a PDC 2005 There are currently no more details available, but you can signup for updates as the details develop.no1138 1817 days ago
A new section of the .NET Framework Developer Center went live today, it focuses on 64-bit .NET Framework programming. Over to Frank Redmond for the details: <extract> Check out the MSDN .NET Framework Developer Center’s new 64-bit .NET Framework programming section! The new 64-bit .NET Framework programming section includes: development articles, tools and community resources as well as 2 step-by-step Hands-On Lab (HOL) samples that will get you up to speed quickly on 64-bit .NET Framework programming. HOL501 addresses the most common managed code migration scenarios: migrating managed code with no native dependencies, migrating managed code w/a dependency on a native DLL, migrating managed code w/a dependency on a native DLL that requires unsafe code and migrating managed code w/a dependency on a native COM component. HOL503 addresses C++ migration issues such as data type changes to the Win32 API and floating-point differences as well as investigating ...
