Summary

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This chapter took you on a grand tour through the world of .NET Remoting. You should now understand the remoting architecture and how to build host server applications and client programs. You learned how to implement client-activated and server-activated remote objects, and you learned about the available server activation modes. The chapter also explained how remote object lifetimes are managed using leases. You learned how to subscribe to events published by remote objects, and you learned the requirements of marshal- by-value and marshal-by-reference parameters of remote methods .

The chapter explained how to use the TCP and the HTTP channels and described the differences between them in terms of marshaling and serialization. You also learned how to use IIS as a host for remote objects that are accessed using HTTP.

The chapter concluded with a description of the ways in which you can customize the remoting infrastructure, using the methods available in the RemotingServices class as well as using more intricate techniques such as building custom message sinks and channels.

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