Chapter 9. Web Services and Remoting
The Microsoft Office applications were originally designed to be client-side UI-intensive end-user applications, and they fulfill this role extremely well. They also expose extensive programmability features, and many solutions based around Office are also client-side UI-intensive. On the other hand, it is increasingly common to build Office-based solutions that are distributed and that leverage existing systems that might even reside on non-Windows platforms.
The .NET Framework offers two broad technologies for building enterprise-strength distributed systems: ASP.NET Web services and .NET Remoting. To be sure, you can build solutions using older interprocess communication protocols such as named pipes, sockets, ...
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