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Advanced. NET Remoting in VB. NET
by Ingo Rammer

Publisher: Apress Buy it Now! 

ISBN: 1590590627
Format: Paperback, 432pp
CD: NO

With all the attention paid recently to Web services, many developers don't realize that the true successor to DCOM is actually .NET Remoting. And what an improvement it is! This book serves as a practical, in-depth look at how developers can leverage .NET Remoting to build distributed, Internet-based applications.

What is .Net Remoting? Well in simple words: ".Net Remoting is to Web Services what ASP has been to CGI programming... .Net Remoting enables you to work with stateful objects (contrary to Web Services)".

This oversimplified description of .Net remoting fortifies the fact that the book is aimed to advance readers. However, it targets to group of developers, those that simply want to explore and learn how use .Net Remoting, and those that are eager to see hot to extend the power of .Net Remoting.

Advanced NET Remoting in VB. NET will teach you about comfortable ways to interconnect different applications and components in an OOP manner; also it covers the means of cross-process and cross-machine interaction of application development with VB.NET.

The topics discussed in the book go from ".Net remoting basics", and "In-Depth .Net remoting" to more advanced "Extending .Net remoting". In the first 6 chapters, Ingo covers everything you as a developer need to know to use the framework and its capabilities in real-world applications, including the basics of server-activated objects versus client-activated objects, formatters, channels, lifetime issues, security, configuration files, and more. The server-side hosting of remotable components in console applications, Windows Services, and IIS are also covered. All those topics are covered it the first part of the book. The second part of the book gives you a full technical overview to help you really understand what goes "behind" the code and what steps need to be taken to customize the remoting framework to suit a developer exact needs.

Until recently, DCOM was the preferred method for developing distributed applications on Microsoft platforms. But as this book demonstrates, the .NET Remoting architecture is much easier to use and extend than DCOM. The book covers all aspects of .NET Remoting, including in-depth coverage of the .NET Remoting architecture plus concrete examples, best practices, and performance tips to show how to extend and customize the framework.

If you ever start exploring the world of .Net Remoting this book is simply a must have. Make more room on your bookshelves for such titles...