.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library

Type Summary

						public abstract class MarshalByRefObject
 {
   // Constructors
MS
						protected MarshalByRefObject ();

   // Methods
MS CF
						public virtual ObjRef CreateObjRef (Type requestedType);
MS CF
						public object GetLifetimeService ();
MS CF
						public virtual object InitializeLifetimeService ();
 }

BA The meaning of this class is only interesting when you consider cross-process or cross-machine remoting. That functionality was not included as part of the CLI standard. However, we needed to keep this placeholder type in the standard, as many of the types in the standard extend from it.