Microsoft® .NET Remoting

Messages

You’ll see a lot of messages throughout the rest of this book because they’re the fundamental unit of data transfer in .NET Remoting applications. Because .NET Remoting objects such as proxies and message sinks use messages extensively, let’s discuss messages in more detail before we begin customizing those other objects.

Recall from Chapter 2, “Understanding the .NET Remoting Architecture,” that all .NET Remoting messages derive from IMessage. IMessage merely defines a single IDictionary property named Properties. IDictionary defines an interface for collections of key-and-value pairs. Because both the keys and values of IDictionary-based collections contain elements of type object, you can put any .NET type into these collections. ...