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Professional C# 2008
Professional C# 2008 is here! It contains 1800 pages although some chapters like .NET Remoting have been removed. The sixth edition was changed to include C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5! All the chapters of the book were changed to the new C# 3.0 syntax. Lambda Read More
posted Friday, April 18, 2008 8:17 PM with 0 Comments

Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework - Japanese edition
My book Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework is now available translated to Japanese! You can get it here: Amazon Japan Christian Read More
posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:51 PM with 1 Comments

200 Years Wiley
This year, Wiley celebrates 200 years. Wiley is the publisher of my books Professional C# 2005 with .NET 3.0 and Beginning Visual C# 2005. With some books it's still interesting to read them after 200 years. The earliest surviving book from Wiley Read More
posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:17 PM with 0 Comments

.NET 2.0 Book Package - 3600 Pages!
Professional C# 2005 is one of the books inside a book package: Professional C# 2005 Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Professional .NET Framework 2.0 Professional .NET Generics 3600 pages plus a CD-ROM with bonus chapters! Christian Read More
posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:03 AM with 0 Comments

Italian version of Professional C# 2005
I've just received a copy of my book Professional C# 2005 in Italian language:   C# 2005 Guida per lo sviluppatore http://www.hoepli.it/item.asp?ty=&id=172326&pc=000015003002002   All the chapters: L'architettura .NET Le Read More
posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:13 PM with 0 Comments

Chinese Version of Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework
At the MVP summit I've just met Xuegen Jin also known as Saucer, one of the translators of my Enterprise Services book to Chinese! The main translator is Wei Xia.A first version of the sample chapter that includes both English and Chinese Read More
posted Friday, September 30, 2005 8:11 PM with 1 Comments

Book featured in the MSDN Magazine
My newest book Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework is featured in the October-2005 edition of the MSDN Magazine! This edition of the magazine is distributed at the PDC. Of course the book is also available at the PDC-bookstore Read More
posted Monday, September 12, 2005 3:34 PM with 0 Comments

SearchWin2000.com: Chapter of the Week
A chapter of my new book Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework is available at searchwin2000.techtarget.com! Christian Read More
posted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 7:31 AM with 0 Comments

Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework
The first copies of my book Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework have been printed! I can't wait to have it in my hands! You can read great comments about the book from William G. Ryan (Microsoft MVP), Burt Clayton and Brian Davis on the Addison Read More
posted Friday, June 03, 2005 3:33 PM with 9 Comments

Pro .NET Network Programming
I've received a copy of my newest book: Pro .NET Network Programming! This book once was a book with a red cover. The new edition (Apress) it not only updated for .NET 1.1, it also covers programming with raw sockets and IPv6. The chapters: Networking Read More
posted Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:06 PM with 2 Comments

Professional C# 3rd Edition
Yesterday I've received my copies of Professional C# 3rd Edition. This book will also be available at TechEd Europe! It's not only an update for .NET 1.1, now the book has 32 chapters. The chapters: The C# Language .NET Architecture C# Basics Read More
posted Saturday, June 19, 2004 11:55 PM with 2 Comments

Ready for Production
Today I've finished the changes on my new book, ready for the next cycle. :-) A first thanks to my reviewers Mario Szpuszta, Sam Gentile, Trond Borg, Chris Mitchell, Burt Clayton, Brian Davis and Brian Geary. The book would not be as good without the Read More
posted Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:17 PM with 0 Comments

Professional C# 3rd Edition
The 3rd Edition of Professional C# will be available at TechEd San Diego! On Thursday Bill Evjen, Jay Glynn and I will be at the bookstore for book signing. Join us at 10:30-11:30! Christian Read More
posted Friday, May 21, 2004 2:30 PM with 4 Comments

Sam's Comments
Sam Gentile not only has some comments about the startup of thinktecture, he also has some great comments about my upcoming book :-) Sam improved the quality of the book as a great reviewer :-) Christian Read More
posted Monday, May 10, 2004 8:23 PM with 3 Comments

Pitfalls with Queued Components
I just had a discussion with a friend who had problems using Queued Components with ASP.NET. The issues: Using the queue moniker from ASP.NET, the ASPNET account needs access to the type library. With QC you cannot pass serializable objects with the Read More
posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:33 AM with 3 Comments

Chapter 15 - Case Study
The last chapter of my upcoming book is a case study that includes a complete solution with multiple projects. The scenario of this case study includes multiple cooperating companies. Data access classes that use ADO.NET for invoking stored procedures Read More
posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 8:06 PM with 1 Comments

Chapter 14 - The Future of Distributed Applications
In chapter 14 I'm comparing .NET Enterprise Services technologies with Web serivces specifications. Often there is a good match between these two technologies looking at WS-Eventing WS-ReliableMessaging WS-Coordination WS-AtomicTransaction WS-BusinessActivity Read More
posted Friday, April 09, 2004 2:42 PM with 0 Comments

Chapter 13 - Deployment and Configuration
Just a few chapters left :-) Chapter 13 is about deployment and configuration of Enterprise Services applications. Dynamic registration of serviced components is only useful during development (and here this is very useful). On the production system Read More
posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:48 AM with 1 Comments

Chapter 12 - Security
Chapter 12 covers many aspects of security with distributed applications. Because serviced components do not stand alone in a distributed solution, the chapter covers security with SQL Server Internet Information Server ASP.NET Web Applications Read More
posted Sunday, March 21, 2004 1:06 PM with 1 Comments

Chapter 11 - Loosely Coupled Events
Chapter 11 is about Loosely Coupled Events (LCE). First I'm comparing LCE with COM Events (Connection Points), and .NET Events, then these topics are covered: Architecture of LCE Programming LCE Using LCE across the Network LCE and Queued Components Read More
posted Sunday, March 07, 2004 10:07 PM with 1 Comments

Chapter 10 - Queued Components
Message queuing allows disconnected communication. Queued components adds an abstraction layer to message queuing. Instead of sending messages to a queue, methods can be invoked in a recorder. The recorder creates messages to put it into the message queue. Read More
posted Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:31 PM with 5 Comments

Chapter 9 - State Management
Chapter 9 describes state management with serviced components. With .NET Enterprise Services applications, state can be kept in many different places - e.g. client application, serviced compnent, shared property manager, database, ASP.NET Web Services Read More
posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:08 PM with 1 Comments

Chapter 8 - Compensating Resource Manager
Chapter 8 describes the functionality of the Compensating Resource Manager (CRM) with .NET Enterprise Services. CRMs make it possible to build easily resource managers that participate with COM+ transactions. With a CRM it is possible to have transactional-like Read More
posted Sunday, January 18, 2004 12:17 PM with 5 Comments

Chapter 7 - Transactions
Chapter 7 is about transactions. After giving an introduction to transactions I start with programmatic transactions using ADO.NET. Next automatic transactions with serviced components and the [Transaction] attribute follows.COM+ 1.5 allows setting transaction Read More
posted Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:31 PM with 10 Comments

Chapter 6 - Data Access and ObjectSpaces
Chapter 6 of my new book is about Data Access with ADO.NET and ObjectSpaces.ADO.NET is only covered with a few examples how to use it from Serviced Components. ObjectSpaces has a big part in this chapter. Mapping business objects to relational data has Read More
posted Wednesday, December 31, 2003 1:17 PM with 3 Comments

My newest book arrived: Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook
My newest book arrived: Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook. This book has a cookbook-style (as the name says). Every section starts with a "You want to...", and a how-to technique and comments that follow.Examples:  You want to create Read More
posted Friday, December 26, 2003 2:44 PM with 2 Comments

Chapter 5 - Network Access
Chapter 5 of my book is about network access to serviced components. This chapter is splitted into three parts: DCOM, .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services. DCOM is still a very useful protocol to access serviced components. This protocol is fast, contexts flow Read More
posted Monday, December 22, 2003 6:34 PM with 3 Comments

Chapter 4 - COM Interop
COM Interop plays an important role with .NET Enterprise Services. Chapter 4 of my new book deals with COM Interop in regard to Enterprise Services. One part of this chapter is using COM clients (VB6, C++, Scripting) accessing serviced components, the Read More
posted Monday, December 08, 2003 2:04 PM with 1 Comments

Chapter 3 - Concurrency
Chapter 3: Concurrency This chapter deals with concurrency of serviced components. For integrating COM components with .NET components it is necessary to know about apartments as well as activities, and the .NET synchronization options. So this chapter Read More
posted Monday, November 10, 2003 1:12 AM with 2 Comments

Chapter 2 - Object Activation and Contexts
Chapter 2 is sent to the publisher :-) This chapter covers contexts - discussing both COM+ and .NET Remoting contexts, and how they relate, as well as building a simple serviced component, JITA, and object pooling. Christian Read More
posted Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:28 AM with 1 Comments

.NET Network Programming
SBC received the Professional .NET Network Programming book, and has some good comments about it :-) I also like the comments on Amazon :-) The book is nearly out of stock, but the last copies are sold at a very low price. A new edition Read More
posted Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:43 AM with 1 Comments

Chapter 1
I've just finished the first chapter of my new book. The major part was already done before, but now I've updated the styles to a new format from the publisher. Also, I've changed some sections. Chapter 1 gives an overview about distributed applications, Read More
posted Sunday, October 12, 2003 5:10 PM with 3 Comments

Starting a new book
Until now I've co-authored many .NET books. My chapters covered topics such as .NET Remoting Assemblies XML Web Services Windows Forms Active Directory Messaging COM Interop Enterprise Services Security Network Programming Multicasting Windows Read More
posted Saturday, September 06, 2003 2:02 PM with 1 Comments


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