HOWTO: Use the BinaryFormatter with HTTPChannel This articles shows you how to use the BinaryFormatter with the HTTPChannel. A choice which yields the best combination of features and performance.
HOWTO: Use Interface-based remote objects with config files Interfaces seem to be the best way to share the metadata for remote objects. At the first look it seems that this would render the remoting configuration file unusable. This article demonstrates how you can nevertheless use dynamically configured properties with your interface based remote object.
Custom
Exceptions and .NET Remoting
Just using [Serializable] is not enough to correctly transfer custom
exceptions over Remoting boundaries. This article shows you why ...
HOWTO: Use CAOs behind a firewall This article shows you possible problems and workarounds with Client Activated Objects which are located behind a firewall. HOWTO: Get a MarshalByRefObject's remote URL This article shows how you can get the remote URL of a MarshalByRefObject for which you only have a __TransparentProxy object. HOWTO: Publish a specific object-instance via Remoting This article shows you how to take an existing object instance in any .NET application and publish it as a wellknown remoting object at a certain URL. | Question: How many channels should be registered? How many channels should be registered in your client application to allow communication with multiple object? In this FAQ, Ingo answers this question and explains the reasons why it's actually enought to just register a single channel PRB: GUI application hangs when using non-[OneWay]-Events
When implementing Windows Forms based applications which send data to a server from which this data is in turn broadcast to several clients, the application will hang when using non-[OneWay] events. As you already know, [OneWay] events are not the best thing to do, so this article shows you the reasons for this problem and how you can work around them.
INFO: Why Singletons are destroyed after five minutes
In this short article, Ingo shows you why a .NET Remoting singleton might be destroyed and re-created while your application is running and how you can change this behavior.
INFO: Why CAOs don't expose WSDL - and how to get it nevertheless This article discusses the reason why SoapSuds won't generate metadata-only Assemblies for client activated objects when using the -url parameter and shows you
two other solutions on how to acquire the metadata nevertheless. PRB: BinaryFormatter Version Incompatibility This article shows the real reason for the mysterious "BinaryFormatter Version incompatibility"-Exception which occurs from time to time when hosting components in IIS and accessing them using the binary formatter. You will be surprised ... |
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