Ingo Rammer's Weblog

Sam Gentile: Happy Birthday!

Sam Gentile: Happy Birthday! [...] I will be at the Web Services DevCon which as Sam Ruby suggested you should come out a few days early for.

Thanks, Sam! I'm looking forward to meeting you at the WS DevCon! ;)

Brian: Happy Birthday to

Brian: Happy Birthday to Ingo and Clemens (a little early)!

Thanks! Happy Birthday to you too (a little late)!

Yes, I'll also attend the Web Services DevCon

Sam Ruby: ... in Tyngsboro, MA. October 15 - 18, 2002  Any chance of coming out a few days early?

You bet! This is going to be the only conference for which I'll pay this year - so be sure to prepare some great content ;-)

Clemens Vasters: Happy Birthday,

Clemens Vasters: Happy Birthday, Ingo!  I am 9 years and 364 days older than you.

Thanks Clemens! And early Happy Birthday to you, too!

Today's my birthday

Birthday! I'm turning 23 today. I guess I'm one of the younger folks around here ;-)

Meeting Sam at WIN-DEV

[Sam Gentile] I'll be at WIN-DEV's Fall Developer Summit in Tyngsboro, MA. October 15 - 18, 2002 where I'll talk on the CLR/.NET Internals track. [Ingo Rammer's DotNetCentric] which is about 4 miles from my house Ingo!! We've got to meet physically-))

Great idea! I'll send you an email right before departure, ok?

Rotor rocks

I'm absolutely looking forward to reading these two books (Rotor Internals and CLR Internals):

[via Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] CLR^H^H^HRotor Internals. O'Reilly posted beta chapters on the Rotor GC and type system from the upcoming SSCLI Essentials book by Dave Stutz, Ted Neward & Geoff Shilling. Required reading for any CLR wonks in the crowd, sets a good bar for Jason & I ;-)

Oh, and by the way - at the .NET One conference, taking place from October 11 to 12 in Frankfurt, Germany. I'll do the following talk:

TransparentProxy and friends - How Remoting and Contexts really work

Abstract: The Remoting and Context capabilities of the .NET Framework transform a stack based method call into a message based one. The resulting message can be intercepted or transferred via application boundaries. Based on the Rotor source code, you will learn how transparent proxies are created by the CLR, how stackframes are converted to messages and how context boundaries are detected and used. If you always wanted to know how Remoting works behind the curtains, this talk is for you! Ingo goes down to the core - this talk isn't just in-depth, it's 20,000 miles below the surface.

<Disclaimer:Marketing>This talk is going to be the most hardcore Remoting talk ever and forever. </Disclaimer:Marketing>

I'll start out with the Rotor JIT, show how virtual methods and final methods are JITted differently and what this means for Remoting. I'll then walk the PreStub and Remoting-Stub generation in the JIT - again talking about the differences between virtuals and finals. All in all, I'll cover basically everything before RealProxy.Invoke() and after StackBuilderSink.SyncProcessMessage(). I'll also give the answer why calling virtual methods declared on a MarshalByRefObject is actually slower than calling final methods (without any use of Remoting). This talk's absolutely going to be fun!

Ingo's conference schedule this fall ...

This fall's going to be fun ...

I'll be at WIN-DEV's Fall Developer Summit in Tyngsboro, MA. October 15 - 18, 2002 where I'll talk on the CLR/.NET Internals track. I'll do a Hands-On Introduction to .NET Remoting and an in-depth talk about .NET Remoting Internals. Other folks on this track are (A-Z): Jason Whittington, Jesse Liberty, Jim Wilson, John Lam, Keith Brown, and Mike Woodring. On the other tracks there are even more Developmentors and all-around-great-guys ... just check the list of speakers.

After this conference I'll take some days of vacation and will re-appear in Orlando, FL at VS .NET Connections from October 27 - 30, where I'll be on the C# track together with Aaron, Dino, John, Peter, Richard, and Ted. I'll do a comparison of .NET Remoting and ASP.NET Web Services (aka. "Why the heck are there two different SOAP stacks"), a talk on advanced issues in .NET Remoting and final one about the extensibility model of .NET Remoting. In total, there will be 42 speakers (if I counted right) and I guess you'll recognize some names ...

Peter talks about Remoting in Rotor at MSR Cambridge

Peter's back from the UK where he talked about Remoting in Rotor at MSR Cambridge. He also announced to put 2 new channel sinks and the updates to JabberChannel to make it Rotor-compatible [...] into the .NET Remoting Projects CVS. Great!

Nice tools approaching on the

Nice tools approaching on the horizon:

Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0 Beta. "The primary purpose of the tool is to be able to quickly detect node-level changes between versions of an XML document, and with enough granularity to support efficient patch and merge scenarios. The patch format can be used for fairly terse delta-encoding to transfer incremental changes across the wire as well. The tool is officially called "XmlDiff and Patch" and is implemented in managed code (sorry, no MSXML version). Currently you can only perform XML Diff through the web page, but the assembly should be available on that site very soon. I think it is considerably better than anything else available today, in terms of both performance and accuracy, and the API is a good fit with the System.Xml libraries, so it should be really easy for any VB/J#/C#/F# programmers to use."

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