I hope this is the right forum for this post, if it is not, please forgive
my insolence. I'm not qualified in .NET nor am i qualified in any other
language, i learn languages the way i always do: on my own
research/trial-by-error.

I have class that creates a word application document using the following
basic code:
Public Sub CreateDocument()
   Dim app As Word.Application

I would appreciate any ideas on my issue which is.......I have a shared
folder located on machine 1, whereas on machine 2 I have mapped this folder
as "W:" (say).
My application is in turn located on machine 3. Now I want that if my user

I have worked through Dino Esposito’s example using remoting (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/NETRemoting/default.asp
My machine has V/Studio 2003, XP professional SP 1, Net frameworks 1.0 and 1.1. The machine is not on a Domain. I have admin rights. I have not ...

I have written a RealProxy descendant which intercepts my client's message
calls to the remoting server. In its Invoke method I catch the
IMethodReturnMessage and look at the Exception property. If it is a certain
exception I want to change the exception to my own exception to ...

it doesn't matter if I use the TcpChannel or the HttpChannel.
I always can read the tcp stream in ascii.
I can see the method names in the tcp dump for example.
shouldn't that be a binary format with tcp?

I'm building a small sample application in order to better understand
.NET remoting. I have a graph object (my model) which lives on the
server side as a Singleton activated object. Clients can access this
object and, for example, add or remove a node.

How can I use remote object if there is no remote type on client side.
On client side I only know an interface that server side object implements
and probably full name of server-side class implementing the interface. How
can I create instance of an object without having object ...

I have a client/server application that uses remoting.  The client and
server are separate applications that can either run on the same computer or
run on separate computers in the same domain.  Both computers have the .Net
framework 1.1 installed.

my question is more theoretical.
If I like to develop let's say a chat server with sockets, all my
clients can stay connected with the server as long the client runs. If
there's a new text message for all clients, the server can send this

Hi everybody! I'm testing a server/client app. Both server and client
are on the same computer running Windows 2000. Is there any way to
imitate a network problem locally? Maybe deactivate sockets somehow?
Thanks in advance.

I have a remoting object (singleton) that when activated listens for
mutlicast messages so that it can tell clients where it is. The clients then
access the remoting objects methods from there. The problem I'm having is
that under IIS the object is not instantiated untill the first ...

Hello, All!
I have one component instanced in my server application, and my client
application access that component via remoting. My problem is, when any
error occurs in server side, I receive a standard error response, saying to

First: I'm pretty new to .NET Remoting so please be patient with me ;-)
I have a service running on a server. This service has to write some data to
a database. There are some clients which tell the service what he should do.
My problem now is:

           From remote server side I am trying to send an object which
contains sqldate time value or object. I am unable to serialze that object.
   What could be the problem?