Microsoft® .NET Remoting

Creating a Formatter Sink

As discussed in Chapter 2, .NET Remoting uses formatter sinks to format IMessage objects to a stream that’s then passed to the remaining channel sinks in the channel for eventual delivery to the remote object. The .NET Remoting infrastructure separates formatter sink functionality into two types: client formatter sinks and server formatter sinks.

Client Formatter Sink

The first sink in the client-side channel sink chain is an instance of a client formatter sink that implements the IClientFormatterSink interface. The client formatter sink acts as a bridge between the message sink chain and the channel sink chain. As such, the client formatter sink is both a message sink and a channel sink. The IClientFormatterSink ...