I had posted this earlier on C# forum. This seems like a more
appropriate place for this question.
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I have a wellknown singleton service object, which accesses unmanaged

I am starting a project that may be suitable for vb.net, using windows
forms. I want a rich client, thus win forms vs web forms. Most users
will access the app data over a LAN, but some will be remote users,
accessing via vpn. I could use terminal services for this but am

After having uncomprehensible problems with remoting, I drilled down
the the simple example in Ingo Rammer's Chapter3
"ClientActivatedViaFactory".  My problem is still there...
When I run both server and client on the same machine, everything works

I'm not absolutley sure how references in Remoting will persist. My server
object is a singleton.
Let's say I have two server methods (extremely simplified for this
question):

I have an SAO that hosts many CAOs running in their own AppDomain. Per
client request [for a new CAO], the hosting SAO will create a new AppDomain
and create the request CAO within this new AppDomain; then, return the CAO to
client. I do this so I can later unload CAO's assembly ...

I'm trying to run a remote script using WSH script.  When I run the script
from the command prompt, it work fine.  Tracing the task manager, when the
script run from the command prompt it use the my user account.
I trying to run the script from an ASP.NET page using  a system ...

How can I ensure that a port is unused? I know I could catch the exception
if the port is
used and try another one, but in that case how can the client know in which
port Iam

I have a common component that will be used from many applications in my
organization. There are different ways to host that component, such as:
(1) As COM+ application on a server
(2) As a shared assembly in GAC on every machine

I am trying to create a simple test server activated object.
In the source code I have...
ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(new TcpServerChannel(8085));
But the compiler cannot find the TcpServerChannel class (nor HttpChannel). I

I have an architectural question concerning the integration of UI elements
from one application domain into another. The context of the question is
related to dynamically loadable/unloadable plugins which contain UI.
While it is possible to load and interact with forms belonging ...

My RemoteServer is a singleton remote object hosted by windows service and
accessed by ASP.NET application
using remoting,server activated
Basically my RemoteServer need to send several email message types,and it

Is there a safer way without using "typeFilterLevel=Full" to work with
events/delegates? Without this configuration as you know there are a lot of
security problems arise... My question implies those cases.

i have a windows service 24/7 should be on. i want to get a heart-beat info each second from the server.
server would update a singleton object's property each second to DateTime.Now. if the health-notifier client which checks the heart-beat property of the mentioned singleton ...

I'm in the situation where I want to get the absolute path of IIS code base directory (i.e. typically <website name>\bin ), without passing the website (virtual directory) name.
As the default current directory (or working directory) for the IIS is  "C:\WINNT\system32\inetsrv", ...

   I'm currently exposing some methods via HTTP/SOAP remoting. Someone
recently asked if I could expose these methods as a "Web Service" and I
wasn't sure how to answer. Is remoting using HTTP/SOAP the equivalent of a
web service? If not, how do the two concepts differ?