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

Key .NET Remoting Design Decisions

As much as I’d like to jump straight into the typical "Hello World" example of .NET Remoting, you need to make a few fundamental choices before you even start to implement an architecture that incorporates .NET Remoting. These choices concern the type of activation, the object lifetime, and the message format and network transport used for communication.

Activation Modes

.NET Remoting supports three types of objects:

• SingleCall

  These stateless objects are automatically created with every method invocation and live for only the duration of that method. The client can keep and use the same reference, but every call results in the creation of a new object.

• Client-activated

  These objects are most similar to ordinary objects. ...