Microsofta .Net Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .Net Remoting: Integrating XML Web Services and .Net Remoting

This book is very useful and well written! #1. It covers most of important things in architecture design in enterprise development. #2. It is easy to read. Easy to understand. To the point and a efficient learning tool. #3. It is very accurate. With picky eyes, I have not found any inaccuracies so far. (Technology advancement will make some comments out-of-date, but that would be another story). #4. You do not have to use web service or remoting for this book to be greatly helpful. #5. It appears that the author knows every corner of distributed system design to a great depth. Last comment/advice to Microsoft - Microsoft should invest more on this kind of quality books if it wants drag more IT projects on .Net and to defeat the competing platforms. I recommend this book to IT professionals. 5 stars of course.

Having recently passed 70-310, I found this book to be exceedingly helpful in cementing certain .NET distributed concepts for the exam-- meanwhile, related MCAD/MCSD study guides like those from Sybex and Microsoft (?!) came up short... Chapters 1-9 of this book provided clear explanations and working examples for 70% of the content I encountered on my recent exam, while topics covered equally well in Chapters 11-15 accounted for the remaining 30%. Even Windows Services can be found about mid-way through Chapter 7. If you are keen on moving into distributed .NET programming and/or preparing for 70-310 (like me), I would highly recommend this book. I would not have earned my MCAD credential without it...

This book won't tell you every single thing about .Net Remoting, Web Services, Com+ or Message Queueing, but since it gives you a lot of info on all those techs and a lot of others it's the perfect book for people who plan on creating Distributed Applications. I have read it full now and it helped me a LOT in my work. I work as an application developer at a bank and I'm supposed to do the company workflow system. It has to be very scalable so I needed to build a distributed architecture. This book helped me building this architecture and getting it approved by the board. Great Book!

This book uses Visual Basic.NET and not C# for it's examples. If I were to list any one particular disappointment I had with this book, it would be that. However it's extremely easy to port VB.NET code to C# and vice versa, and VB.NET code is a little easier to read and understand.With that out of the way this book completely rocks. It should be required reading for any enterprise application developer. The title is a bit deceptive in that you believe the book concentrates on NET Remoting and XML Web Services; it does concentrate more on those topics than any other, but only to the extent necessary - you never feel like he's repeating himself. Also included is a comprehensive examination of threads, messaging (Microsoft Message Queue Server), advanced remoting, deployment, logging, security - everything.I'm a self taught developer and there are a lot of holes in my knowledge that I know exist. This book single handedly filled in more of those holes than any other book I've read in recent memory. Gestalt after gestalt followed as I consumed this book over the course of a weekend.Someone once called me and asked if I had seriously posted the review of the Access Developer's Handbook. (My name is, ah, unique.) It was a glowing review like this one, and he doubted that a real person had posted it. I'm a real person, and this is really my opinion of this book. If you can afford it, buy it. You will not regret it.

I'm only halfway through this one, and I decided I just HAD to write a review. In a world that has 200-page books written by five authors (see my IIS6 Handbook review), a comprehensive 700 page book that speaks with a single voice is a rare find. I've found a few other good single-author books (like Balena's book on VB), but this is far and away the best book for learning enterprise architecture, best design practices & patterns, and advanced techniques like multithreading.Here's just one example: I've lost track of how many times I've read about how to use COM+ services in .NET without an explanation of why I should (or shouldn't)!! This book not only explains brilliantly how to use COM+, it explains when you should and shouldn't use it, and the limitations you'll encounter. We also get similar treatment of threading issues (for 2 whole chapters), caching/optimization, security (in only one chapter, but it's a solid overview). There's also a chapter just on design that talks in practical terms about facades, factories and other patterns. I've read some of this stuff in other books, but all I got was theory and contrived examples. In this book I see how to apply these patterns in the real world. That alone would have won me over.Basically, this book is FULL of great material for anyone who knows the code but want to move up. It also includes three full case studies, which I haven't seen anywhere else. I'm not a big fan of case studies, but these do show the author's multi-layered approach in detail. Overall, great!