Summary

In this chapter, you received an introduction to .NET remoting. Remoting is a technology in the .NET Framework that allows you to make method calls across app domain, process, and machine boundaries. .NET remoting is a key enabling technology for writing distributed applications on the .NET platform. .NET remoting is intended primarily for .NET clients talking to .NET servers, unlike XML Web services, which are designed for heterogeneous environments. .NET Remoting has great flexibility and allows you to choose between SOAP or a binary format for serializing message streams and HTTP or TCP as the network protocol. In the next (and final) chapter, I discuss migration strategies.