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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.276
EAN: 9781590594179
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 1590594177
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: February 16, 2005
Publisher: Apress
Studio: Apress
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With the arrival of .NET remoting, any programmer who wants to work with distributed objects can benefit from Advanced .NET Remoting, a solid tour of basic and expert techniques for working with distributed code on Microsoft's newest platform.
This title's concise, code-centered approach, backed up by judicious discussion of the finer technical points of .NET, is what helps make it a success. After touring the history of standards used for distributed computing over the years, from DCE/RPC to CORBA to COM and related Microsoft technologies, the author zeroes in on .NET remoting. Short, digestible examples highlight the relevant objects and APIs useful to create and invoke objects remotely. From the basics, the book moves forward with other possibilities for designers, whether using by value or reference arguments for objects, client-activated vs. server-activated objects, and a useful section on asynchronous processing for remote function calls. Early examples use the APIs and strategies you'll need to work on your own, and the author highlights "best practices" like using class factories.
Detailed discussion of deployment options (using XML) is followed by a quick discussion of security and authentication and then managing object lifetimes (including programmatic options through leasing and sponsors). Coverage of using strongly named assemblies (for the Global Assembly Cache, GAC) and versioning stresses the finer points of how different versions of .NET components can be invoked on the same server.
For experts, theres a fine section that covers .NET remoting internals, explains the details of making distributed calls in .NET, and shows off how messages are formatted and passed between systems through proxies. Excellent use of sequence diagrams showing these features at work will make this chapter invaluable for the advanced reader (though you still use the sample code without having to master these .NET internals).
The book returns to its pragmatic focus with some interesting sample code for compressing and encrypting .NET remote messages with built-in support classes in .NET. A highly developed chapter demonstrates how you use custom transport channel to make remote calls via e-mail (through SMTP and POP3), showing off the flexibility of the .NET programming model. For the truly adventurous developer, a final chapter explores several (undocumented) features for examining and using context objects used in the .NET remoting model.
Overall, this concisely packaged book mixes the right level of sample code, detailed explanation, and advanced material that will let C# developers get going fast with .NET remoting, which can greatly simplify distributed programming on the new Windows platform. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Introduction to .NET remoting, history of distributed computing mechanisms (including DCE/RPC, CORBA, and COM to .NET), advantages of .NET remoting (and architecture), a simple getting started program using .NET remoting with a server and client, adding validation, types of remoting (passing objects by value and reference, singletons, published objects), using factories to create objects, server-activated vs. client-activated objects, lifetime management, synchronous vs. asynchronous function calls, multi-server programming, shared assemblies (and the soapsuds utility and proxies), configuration (XML config. files and standard options), deployment (console vs. Windows services vs. IIS), security issues (authentication and checking roles), using SSL and encryption, object lifetime management (lease time and managers, server-side sponsors), versioning for .NET components (strong naming and the Global Assembly Cache, GAC), delegate and events (tips for event handling), .NET remoting internals (proxies, messages, message sinks, formatters, and transport channels), internals of asynchronous processing, advanced sink programming (client-, server-side, and dynamic sinks), extending .NET remoting (including message compression and encryption support), custom transport channels (using POP3/SMTP), and undocumented techniques for working with .NET remoting context objects.
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— William Ryan, KnowDotNet. I laughed...I cried...I gave it both thumbs up.
Surpassing any white papers, specialist documents and other documentation&emdash;this book features in-depth coverage of the .NET Remoting Framework. The text is organized into three main parts, and this revised, second edition features 150 pages of entirely new material!
Part one includes a guide to the 1.1 framework and its capabilities in real-world applications. Part two presents .NET remoting internals, and provides real-world code and development strategies. Finally, part three looks at futuristic remoting tools and their present implementation in VS.NET 2005. You will come to see how remoting procedures will change within the new IDE and revised framework.
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This is probably the best book there will be on .NET Remoting. Now that WCF is out, the latest and greatest version of Microsoft's interprocess communication, no one will ever publish another one. Yet for many practical purposes .NET Remoting is adequate and easier to use. Although in one way or another Rammer and Szpuszta tell you what you probably need to know about it, the approach may be uncoordinated and confusing, for example when combining remoting as a communication technique and Windows service as a server housing. They do not detail the underlying architecture, much of which will be familiar to developers who worked through COM, DCOM and COM+ over the years. As with a series of other books on Microsoft technologies in about the last twelve years, one is left with the uneasy feeling that no author of those books has been directly responsible for industrial strength, production quality server products. The authors don't seem serious about the combinations of techniques that are ... Read More
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Excellent book. Exactly what I was looking for. With it you can gain a very well understanding of the subject. simple examples that you can easyly adapt to your specific needs.
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I'm never one to buy books one technology, mainly because they change frequently and you can always find tutorials online. This book however, is well written, descriptive and a must for anyone working with .NET remoting. Excellent!
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This is actually a good book, however, it approaches the subject with an extremely hypothetical view. Lack of real world examples has made reading this book a real bore.
The book on the other hand offers in-depth information regarding the "behind the scenes" work of .NET remoting.
Final verdict: Good value for money, but do not expect any code to work.
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This book almost contain every detail of .NET Remoting.I am sure you can well understanding the .NET Remoting with the help of this book.It gives many good tips and useful cases ,also have some additional experiences of the author.However, I am sory that this book don't have any real and integrated distributed business solutions based on .NET Remoting(I think so ,at least ), although it contains many good cases. but I still strongly recommend you to buy this book, if you want to know .NET Remoting deeply.
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