Chapter 17. Remoting and Enterprise Services

One of the most exciting developments in the Microsoft .NET Framework is the fact that all languages are equal. That means that a programmer can design an attractive interface for a Windows application in C# just as easily as in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. Similarly, Visual Basic .NET can hold its weight with multithreaded code, COM+, and the thorniest of distributed application issues.

This chapter considers some of the techniques that you’ll use when designing large-scale enterprise applications. The first set of recipes (Make an Object Remotable through Track Multiple Clients with a Singleton) targets .NET Remoting, the new platform technology that allows objects to communicate across application ...

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