Make the jump to distributed application programming using the .NET Framework--and introduce a new level of performance, scalability, and security to your network and enterprise applications. Expert .NET developer Matthew MacDonald shares proven techniques for fully exploiting .NET Remoting, XML Web services, and other .NET technologies and integrating them into your real-world solutions. MacDonald digs into key .NET building blocks and architectural issues, explaining which features and designs will best serve your customized distributed application projects--and when to use them. Case studies with full code examples illustrate these practical techniques in action, as well as demonstrating their benefits and tradeoffs. Learn how to: Cross application boundaries with .NET Remoting, XML Web services, and Message Queuing Create responsive clients and scalable servers with multithreading Model your distributed application with interfaces, facades, and factories Use COM+ services such as object pooling, JIT activation, and transactions Craft a data transfer plan with Microsoft ADO.NET--without concurrency errors Help secure your code end to end--from the transport level to the presentation tier Learn ways to avert--or unclog--performance bottlenecks in your applications Automate deployment using self-updating applications and XML Web services Master stateless programming and other best practices for distributed applications

Make the jump to distributed application programming using the .NET Framework--and introduce a new level of performance, scalability, and security to your network and enterprise applications. Expert .NET developer Matthew MacDonald shares proven techniques for fully exploiting .NET Remoting, XML Web services, and other .NET technologies and integrating them into your real-world solutions. MacDonald digs into key .NET building blocks and architectural issues, explaining which features and designs will best serve your customized distributed application projects--and when to use them. Case studies.

Adopt an effortless approach to avoid the hassles of complex concurrency and scaling patterns when building distributed applications in .NET Key Features • Explore the Orleans cross-platform framework for building robust, scalable, and distributed applications • Handle concurrency, fault tolerance, and resource management without complex programming patterns • Work with essential components such as grains and silos to write scalable programs with ease Book Description Building distributed applications in this modern era can be a tedious task as customers expect high availability, high performance, and improved resilience. With the help of this book, you'll discover how you can harness the power of Microsoft Orleans to build impressive distributed applications. Distributed .NET with Microsoft Orleans will demonstrate how to leverage Orleans to build highly scalable distributed applications step by step in the least possible time and with minimum effort. You'll explore some of the key concepts of Microsoft Orleans, including the Orleans programming model, runtime, virtual actors, hosting, and deployment. As you advance, you'll become well-versed with important Orleans assets such as grains, silos, timers, and persistence. Throughout the book, you'll create a distributed application by adding key components to the application as you progress through each chapter and explore them in detail. By the end of this book, you'll have developed the confidence and skills required to build distributed applications using Microsoft Orleans and deploy them in Microsoft Azure. What you will learn • Get to grips with the different cloud architecture patterns that can be leveraged for building distributed applications • Manage state and build a custom storage provider • Explore Orleans key design patterns and understand when to reuse them • Work with different classes that are created by code generators in the Orleans framework • Write unit tests for Orleans grains and silos and create mocks for different parts of the system • Overcome traditional challenges of latency and scalability while building distributed applications Who this book is for This book is for .NET developers and software architects looking for a simplified guide for creating distributed applications, without worrying about complex programming patterns. Intermediate web developers who want to build highly scalable distributed applications will also find this book useful. A basic understanding of .NET Classic or .NET Core with C# and Azure will be helpful.

Barnaby describes how to use the new .NET technologies to build fast, scalable, and robust distributed applications.

This title shows developers how to build Internet-based, distributed applications using Microsoft .NET Remoting, which enables powerful remote interaction among objects. A fundamental understanding of .NET Remoting is crucial as developers shift to developing distributed, Internet-based applications. Until recently, DCOM was the preferred method for developing distributed applications on Microsoft platforms. But as this book demonstrates, the .NET Remoting architecture is much easier to use and extend than DCOM. The book covers all aspects of .NET Remoting, including in-depth coverage of the .NET Remoting architecture plus concrete examples, best practices, and performance tips to show how to extend and customize the framework. Provides developers with deep design and implementation guidance to help them build better distributed applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework One third of the book introduces readers to the basics of using .NET Remoting to develop distributed application Two-thirds of the book covers advanced features of .NET Remoting plus details on how to extend and customize the framework

Building Distributed Applications with Visual Basic.NET provides corporate developers with the .NET Framework techniques necessary to build distributed and reusable business systems in VB.NET.

Barnaby describes how VB.NET developers can use the new .NET technologies to build fast, scalable, and robust distributed applications.