18.0 Introduction

This chapter examines how to perform common tasks related to .NET Remoting. .NET Remoting is the .NET technology to access objects from different application domains.

Application domains are boundaries of applications that isolate applications from each other, where these applications can also run within a single process. You can use .NET Remoting to access objects in other application domains that are running within the same process, in a different process, or across the network.

Unlike ASP.NET Web Services, with .NET Remoting both the client and the server application have to use .NET technologies. With .NET Remoting, the assemblies of objects that are passed across the network must be available on both the client and the server. XML Web Services uses a schema to describe the objects, so the objects used on the client and the server are different types. XML Web Services also let you use different technologies on the client and the server.

In this chapter, you'll see how to create remote objects, clients , and servers using code and configuration files, and stateless and stateful objects, as well as how to create a sink that makes it possible to intercept method calls.