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Why you want to use Enterprise Services for your .NET applicationPart 1: Introduction Yesterday I did a 4.5 hour talk about the relevance and basics of Enterprise Services here at TornadoCamp.NET. In our audience we have about 90% developers who have been using mostly VB6/VB5 up until now and more than half are writing “classic” client/server applications with (very) fat clients and the only server-side actions happening inside SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase by way of stored procedures....

I start to wonder whether it may make sense to do a conference or tour really dedicated to Enterprise Services in XP/.NET Server.

CoRegisterSurrogateEx continued: Tomas comments here in the blog: “Let me see if I get one thing straight: You say we should enable the application when the host starts up and disable it when it shuts down, right?”   — Yes, exactly. “While we’re on it, I think in many cases it would just be enough (and easier, up to a point), to simply make the application components fail activation if they’re not running inside your custom...

Custom Surrogate. Well, the use of CoRegisterSurrogateEx() turned out to be easier than I expected. I buildt a small managed sample to… [Commonality] A few comments on using CoRegisterSurrogateEx. CoRegisterSurrogateEx expects the application id of an Enterprise Services/COM+ package. It “consumes” the calling thread and sets up the COM+ thread pools, etc. on top of the calling host. Using CoRegisterSurrogateEx causes your server apps to behave the exact same way as if they were hosted by...

Blogging from TornadoCamp.net (just finished the introductory keynote – CLR; JIT, GC, etc.) A few comments on Tomas’ wishlist…

As of COM+ 1.5, you have full control over the process lifetime. You can disable/enable, pause/resume, auto-recycle, be notified of spin-up and shutdown and you can host your own process with CoRegisterSurrogateEx() As of Win2K SP3 and better, you can define a single port for each DCOM endpoint (per process) For a release from the dllhost.exe ghetto (actually from the default...