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

Deploying an Assembly

In the past, the use of component-based development with distributed applications was plagued by constant deployment headaches. If you wanted to access Microsoft’s rich set of COM+ services and create objects that were easy to reuse in any language, you had to write COM components, which had to be registered on multiple computers. If you tried another approach (such as creating your own low-level DLLs), you escaped the registration problem but were left out in the cold without easy reuse, versioning, or the ability to use distributed application essentials such as connection pooling.

In .NET, the deployment picture has improved considerably. After you’ve created a component and referenced it in a project, you just need to ...