Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - Posts

• Attribute Driven Transactions

  How are transactions controlled by decorating attributes on service methods? There are three important transaction-related attributes that can be supplied through operation behaviors on the service implementation. By setting the TransactionScopeRequired setting to true, all of the code in the service operation implementation runs inside of a TransactionScope. Without a transaction scope, the other attributes described here aren't very interesting. The TransactionAutoComplete setting controls whether the transaction automatically completes at the end of the service operation. The transaction will only be completed if the operation was successful and didn't throw an exception. An exception causes the transaction to be aborted. The TransactionFlowOption setting controls whether the transaction scope is a new transaction or is a transaction that comes from the caller. There are three options to distinguish the case where the caller might provide a transaction from the case where the caller must provide a transaction. Next time: Number of Connections for Secure Conversation Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:00 AM from Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo, Answers, Service Model

• Halo 3 - Live Action Videos

  Check out these two new live action videos based on Halo 3 - "Arms Race" and "Combat Part 1" - including real working Warthog vehicles! There are only 26 days left before Halo 3 Day - so reserve your copy now!!... Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:26 AM from TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: Games

• SOA and Business Process Conference 2007

  You are in North America and not in Europe ? You want more content than what fits into a track at TechEd? No problem! Just come to the SOA and Business Process Conference that we're running October 29 - November 2 at the Microsoft Conference Center here in Redmond. There'll be lots of very interesting new stuff from teams across our division here at Microsoft. And our boss speaks, too. If distributed systems and composite applications are your thing, you should be here for that conference. No debating, sign up and come! Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:18 AM from Clemens Vasters and the WS Stars | 0 Comments Filed under: MSDN, Architecture, SOA BP Conference

• Live again at TechEd Barcelona: The Steve & Clemens Show

  Even though the TechEd Europe Developer Website doesn't yet clearly say so, Steve Swartz and myself will "of course!" be back with a new set of Steve & Clemens talks in Barcelona for TechEd Europe Developer (November 5-9). And for the first time we'll stay for another week and also give a talk at TechEd Europe ITForum (November 12-16) this year. What will we talk about? Last year we've started with a history lesson, did a broad and mostly technology agnostic overview of distributed systems architecture across 4 talks and closed with a talk that speculated about the future. This year at the TechEd Developer show, we'll be significantly more concrete and zoom in on the technologies that make up the Microsoft SOA and Business Process platform and show how things are meant to fit together. We'll talk about the rise of declarative programming and composition and how that manifests in the .NET Framework and elsewhere. And as messaging dudes we'll also talk about messaging again. At TechEd ITForum we'll talk about the end-to-end lifecycle of composite applications and how to manage it effectively. And of course there'll be "futures". Much less handwavy futures than last year, actually. So .... We'll be in Barcelona for TechEd. You too? Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 3:47 AM from Clemens Vasters and the WS Stars | 0 Comments Filed under: MSDN, Architecture, TechEd Europe