Chapter 4. .NET Remoting: A More Durable DCOM

Microsoft .NET Remoting is, at its simplest, a new way for components to communicate, even as they run in different processes or on different computers. To a degree, .NET Remoting can be considered a replacement for DCOM, the technology that allows COM components to talk across a network. Like DCOM, .NET Remoting is an ideal solution for use over internal networks and enables the application programmer to follow essentially the same programming model used to interact with local objects. Unlike DCOM, .NET Remoting is simple to configure and easy to scale. It also uses a "pluggable" architecture that makes it far more flexible than any previous standard. For that reason, you can use .NET Remoting in ...

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