February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
16h 35m
English
book
Microsoft® .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting
by Matthew MacDonald
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.NET Remoting Fundamentals
In the world of .NET Remoting, there are essentially three types of classes:
Serializable classes
These classes, which are marked with the <Serializable> attribute, can be sent between processes, applications, and computers.
Remotable classes
These classes derive from System.MarshalByRefObject (or indirectly through another class that derives from MarshalByRefObject, such as Component). This provides them with the innate capability to be invoked remotely (outside of their application domain).
Ordinary classes
On their own, these classes can’t be used in a .NET Remoting scenario for communication or for distributed execution. They might be used as a local part of an application, but that topic doesn’t interest us in this chapter. ...