Microsoft® .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting

Summary

This chapter tackled some essential theory. Like any developer, you’d probably like nothing more than to plunge into distributed application coding and start mastering .NET Remoting, XML Web services, and threading right away. However, it’s keenly important that you understand the basic premise behind distributed applications before you start programming. That basic premise is this: Distributed architecture relies on executing portions of code on different computers, not just on the client. This code is wrapped up into a neat object, or component, as described in Chapter 2.

Of course, now that you’ve followed the evolution of application architecture, it should be obvious why we need distributed applications. Without them, it’s extremely ...