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

.NET Remoting vs. XML Web Services

XML Web services offer a simpler model for distributed applications than that provided by .NET Remoting. XML Web services are fine-tuned for Internet scenarios and cross-platform use. Although you can apply .NET Remoting in these scenarios, thanks to its SOAP formatter and HTTP channel, .NET Remoting is more suitable as a high-speed solution for binary communication between proprietary .NET components, usually over an internal network. And although XML Web services can’t match the communication speed of .NET Remoting over a binary channel, they still lend themselves to high-performance designs thanks to their stateless nature and ASP.NET’s multithreaded hosting service.

Here’s a quick overview of the major differences ...