Who This Book Is For

This book is for the intermediate-to-advanced programmer who wants a handson guide to .NET Remoting. Although this book is not an introduction to .NET, the CLR, or any .NET language, you nevertheless will be able to use the knowledge and insight you'll get from this book with any of these programming languages. Because it is my opinion that C# is or will become the ".NET language of choice," all examples in this book are written in C#. But if you're a VB .NET developer, don't despair; it's not about programming languages-it's about the framework!

If you are a "use-it" developer, Chapters 1 through 6 of this book will serve you well by providing a general introduction to the possibilities of remoting and giving you in-depth information on how to use the capabilities that come with .NET Remoting "out of the box." If you are more of an "understand-it-and-extend-it" developer, the second part of this book is for you. Chapters 7 through 11 were written for those who want to understand what's going on behind the scenes of .NET Remoting and how the framework can be customized using proxies, messages, channel sinks, and providers. It also demonstrates how a complete transport channel is implemented from scratch.