Hilton Giesenow has over seven years of experience with Microsoft development tools and technologies. He's an active member of the South African INETA group, and he evangelizes .NET to everyone he meets.
Prior to .NET, DCOM existed as Microsoft's solution to remote object access.
This technology leveraged the successful COM architecture to provide an
infrastructure for remote communication. However, DCOM suffered from a
variety of drawbacks and difficulties, and it ultimately led to Microsoft's
spirited drive to develop Web services and their associated standards.
Unfortunately, in the pre-.NET age even these could be cumbersome and time
consuming to develop, deploy, and access. The Remoting framework that .NET
has brought (of which Web services can technically be seen as a subset, but
will hereafter be dealt with separately) represents a tremendous leap forward
in terms of customizability, availability, development speed, and ease of use
for distributed communication.
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In many business systems, especially those in an enterprise context, it is at
the very least good practice to implement some sort of audit trail. We need
to keep track of who has performed what operations and when they occurred. In
addition, we may require information not only on the underlying database
table affected, but also on the individual field changes themselves. This
article wil... (more)
Hilton Giesenow has over seven years of experience with Microsoft development tools and technologies. He's an active member of the South African INETA group, and he evangelizes .NET to everyone he meets.
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