Stack and Message Transitions
The previous section ended by asking the reader to imagine a CLR-provided facility for creating request messages. Such a facility does exist, and the CLR exposes it to programmers via the transparent proxy mechanism.
A transparent proxy (TP) is a special kind of object that is created by the CLR and exists solely to convert method calls into message exchanges. A transparent proxy is always affiliated with a buddy object known as the real proxy (RP). There is a one-to-one relationship between a transparent proxy object and a real proxy object. This relationship is shown in Figure 7.4. The real proxy is an instance of a type that derives from the System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy abstract base type. One can ...
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