Microsoft® .NET Remoting

Creating Custom Channels

The .NET Remoting infrastructure exposes interfaces and an architecture that allows us to plug our own custom channels into the runtime. Many reasons to create custom channels exist. For instance, you might want to make remote method calls between two computers that can communicate only over a phone line. A custom channel would be the perfect solution to this problem: you could configure the server and client channel sinks to connect and disconnect when they have messages to send. Here are some other examples of possible custom channels:

• User Datagram Protocol (UDP) channel

• Named-pipe channel

• File channel

• <insert obscure protocol> channel

You’re probably thinking, “With the built-in channels, HttpChannel and TcpChannel ...