I seriously hope this is not the first of a series of consecutive messages, as there is a lot of useful documentation abou Remoting, and such a spoken topic about, well, it should not be that difficult Nevertheless, maybe one of the biggest difficulties is the concept, so I'll go righ to the poin...more >>

at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.ValidateReturnArg(Object arg, Type paramType) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PropagateOutParameters(IMessage msg, Object[] outArgs, Object returnValue) at System.RuntimeType.ForwardCallToInvokeMember(String memberName, Bindin...more >>

Can you manipulate the CallContext in a Client/Server Sink in such a way that new information can be pushed from a lower level. I have tried to do this through the code listed below but it has not worked or I should say it works on the server and never the client. Any suggestions? The server code...more >>

Hello Getlemen, I am using a Singleton Server. Several clients use it and share information over it. Now it would be great if the server could call a specific client. I do not want to call all clients via an event. Any idea how to do this? Regards, Holger ...more >>

I am having real problems with Remoting and Events in VB.NET. Everything else is working fine, as soon as I try to use events I get: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException' occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: Cannot find the assembly T...more >>

I want a server activated object life as long as the client is connected. Can this be done only by pinging the server from the client or is there another (buildin) way? For CAOs there is sponsoring. -- Sleepless in Berlin Wernfried...more >>

Hi, I would like to have a windows service that clients can register themself against. After clients have registered, the service should be able to notify the clients immediatly when it receives something that interest them. This information does not have to come from another client. ...more >>

Hi: I am learnning how to use the remoting in my application. But I don't know what is the steps of making a remoting application. So can anyone give me some advice or a remoting design moduel?? Jet ...more >>

PLATFORM SPECIFICATIONS: SYSTEM TYPE: Client/Server LAN SERVER OS: Windows 2003 SVR CLIENT OS: XP / 2000 REMOTING: IIS / HTTP/ SingleCall / SOAP(during DEV) BINARY (during PROD) COM+: Server Activation type / JIT enabled / Pooling enabled / Transaction enabled LANGUA...more >>

Hi again all, I'm trying to understand the interplay between the channels and a firewall. Here's my setup, I have a client which has a http channel registered on say port 5150 to receive a callback. My server object is hosted in IIS. IIS is stting behind a NAT firewall with port 80 open and ...more >>

Hi, I'm working onan enterprise application and I wondering what the best way is to implement remoting hosted by windows services. Should I use 1 service that hosts all my remote objects or should I divide the remoting of object over several windows services ? I know that I must keep in mind t...more >>

Hello, I'd like to create a remoting server with SingleCall objects and I am wondering how remoting will behave under heavy load. Does remoting launch a thread for every client or does it use some kind of thread pool and request queuing mechanism? After quickly scanning the documentation I didn't...more >>

I have a remote object that supports a simple interface. I left out the details in the code that follows in order to present the problem. public namespace MyNamespace { public interface IDbConnect { DataSet ExecuteQuery(string strTable); } public class DbConnect: Ma...more >>

We are about to launch the development of a product developed in C# using a Windows Forms client communicating over .Net Remoting to a middle tier. While we have read a lot of material on remoting, we would very much like to validate our architecture against someone with direct expertis...more >>

What is the best way to accomplish this? I have a web server ( stand alone NOT on a domain ) which uses a component on an app server ( within a domain ). I need to authenicate users from the web server to the app server. Only connection between the two is the tcp port. So as I understand it I ...more >>

Hi.. I posted this earlier to one of the threads but recieved no reply. If anybody has any idea about this, please do let me know. i have to achieve this within next 2-3 days. I am building a project as vb.net windows application. I want to open any file through the form( using system.di...more >>

I have an XML web service that can be customized by customers. The goal is this... A process must run *somewhere* that acts as an interface between the web service and some foreign system. Whatever that foreign system is doesn't matter. It can be anything. The process could run on the same se...more >>

Hi. I posted a thread yesterday and I think I was not very clear in exposing my question I would like to know, when I'm invoking a remoting object's method that returns a DataSet, what will I receive on the client? Will I receive the actual DataSet object, or just a pointer reference to the DataSet...more >>

Hi, I am trying to Publish a Reflected Object (REFOBJ) and access its method from a remote machine. The REFOBJ is inherited from an abstract class which exists on both client and the server machines. I Load the REFOBJ Assembly using Assembly.LoadFile() method and hold it in a global vari...more >>

I want to ensure that only some assemblies will be able to call my remote object (for info, I intend to use TCP channel with Binary formatter but I don't think it's relevant here). Is it a good idea to use a LinkDemand action with the strongNamePermission attribute to solve that problem? Is ...more >>

I have an architecture that is a stand alone web server (not in a domain ) that uses a remote component on an app server inside a domain. I have read all the MSDN articles and have a question. They all speak of using SSPI with Kerberos or NTLM, but in my situation neither can be used. Any help wo...more >>

Hello, Is there a maximum number of requests/sec that a windows service can handle ? What is the weakest link in the communication between service and client in handling the remoting requests? TIA, Mark ...more >>

Hi! I'm creating an assembly with soapsuds.exe to ship witch my client application. When I import the created dll in my client project not all types in the original assembly are available. Propably because these types doesn't ever get returned or passed as parameters directly. I know this probl...more >>

As far as I can tell, the Remoting framework as well as ASP.NET don't help me if I don't also own the server. Is this correct? I currently must write an MS client (where I know the .NET framework will be installed) that accesses a non-MS SOAP webservice. What tools does .NET offer me for this ...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to implement 2 different serializers on a class? For example, I have a class with 3 different collections. Using the default binary formatter I can successfully serialize 2 of the 3 collections by marking the one I dont want as "NonSerialized". Lets say I wanna do a di...more >>

I've just noticed a problem and I wonder what others do about it. I have a remoting server which makes SQL Server calls. Naturally, it can throw exceptions of type System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError. This works fine assuming that the client and server are running the same framework version. If t...more >>

Looking at this definition Singleton: The Singleton flag notifies the server that remote method calls into the server do not destroy the instance of the remote object on the server after the method returns which means subsequent calls from the client can take advantage of the state of the object m...more >>

Hi, I'd like to have some advices on threads and .NET Remoting in order to do a reliable implementations of my remote objects. Here is the plot: i'm exposing a MBR object (let's call it ManagerObject) as a singleton. This object contains several methods, one of them returning an instance of...more >>

Hi, I try to get a serialized object using remoting from other host but it doesn't work with MMC Console Snap-in which is COM/ActiveX (regular Console Application works OK). I've got SerializationException with message "Can't load Assembly xxx ...." but that assembly is loaded and acc...more >>

h i am trying to register a dll file taht was produced by C# code, i register the dll file using Regsvcs.exe on many servers, however, with the new .net framework it gives me this error An unknown exception occurred during installation 1: System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException - In...more >>

Hi, Now I'm getting a message saying "BinaryFormatter Version incompatibility. Expected Version 1.0. Recieved Version 1835627630.1699884645" How do I fix this? Thanks Andy Johnson ...more >>

Hi, I"ve changed both my server and client config files as follows... Client: <configuration> <system.runtime.remoting> <application> <client> <wellknown type="ChatCoordinator, ChatCoordinator" url="http:/...more >>

Hi, why have a tool like ILASM.exe that is generating code just like the CSC.exe ? what is the added value ? thnx Chris ...more >>

Hi Again All, I have a strange problem - I have a public event on my server object and can subscribe to it without problems now on my client. However, when I raise this event on my server nothing happens on the client which has subscribed - anyone have any idea why? Blue Frog ...more >>

OK.. maybe I'm losing my mind... I am returning an ArrayList and only the last object value in the class is "visible", i.e. object.property = "test". The array list is being filled from a datareader where all values are unique for the property. Is there an issue with DeSerialization that I'm not...more >>

Hey All, I'm still having the dreaded deserialisation security error even with this relatively simple setup so I've decided to post my code in the hope that someone can tell me what's going wrong. I have a library called simple.dll shared on IIS in the virtual directory simple. Here is the...more >>

Hi I have seen few components which show progress bar while file uploading to web server . Just want to know what is the logic behind this is. Mr.Bug ...more >>

I am receiving an Exception of Request for the permission of type System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission I have the following setup I am sitting at DeskTop1 (DT1). There is a server called Server1. On Server1 inetpub\wwwroot\vd1 contains an .exe and several .dlls inetpub\wwwroo...more >>

Hi, I'm getting an error saying "Type System.DelegateSerializationHolder and the types derived from it (sucha as System.DelegateSerializaitonHolder) are not permitted to be deserialized at this security level." It only happens when I try to handle a remote event... I"m not sure what this mea...more >>

I've got a some questions about Remoting, objects, threading. lease lifetime and object cleanup, and others. Here is a quick overview of what I've got going so far. I'm using CAO remoting to expose a class that my clients can access. Basically the client program connects to the server, gets ...more >>

Hi again all, I've been reading about setting the serialization level by setting the typeFilterLevel attribute of the <formatter> tag in the server config file and also programatically on the server to overcome the deserialization issue introduce with version 1.1 of the runtime. From what I'v...more >>

Remoting has one disadvantage of Maintainablity. Is it ture...more >>

Hi, How do I use Activator.CreateInstance() in a client if I want to instantiate an object on the server ? I read something about : first thing to do is exposing the server-object using the 'export'-attribute ??? instead of RemotingConfiguration.RegisterWellKnownServiceType( ...more >>

Hi I have a very difficult problem. I had some elements 1 - .dll written in old C++ (not managed) 2 - server written in C# (remoting server) 3 - client written in MC++ (remoting client) In my .dll I have function which are using parameter (type HANDLE) as a way to abort function executin...more >>

Hi all, I've got a question about Remoting and using the TcpChannel object. I was reading on Ingo Rammer's site about how in the Framework 1.1, you needed to use additional code for client activated objects to deal with the additional security. So, I took the code that Ingo had, and massaged...more >>

Hi. I'm building a client-server application where the server is currently running as a console application. After reading some interesting articles on running the server as a window service, I built a new VisualStudio Windows Service project containing 2 new classes: an installer class (which add...more >>

Below is a copy of my initial message on the interop group. The whole thread is here http://tinyurl.com/32cy If you follow the thread, you'll see the the msft rep suggested I cross post my issue here Anyone got any insights??? Thanks in advance B.J. ++++++++++++ Writing several programs ...more >>

I have created a simple (server and client) .net remoting application. the server component is installed in a remote machine and it has to listen to a port i am pasting the server code and the config file. public DashBoardServer() { try { string configFile=Application.Exec...more >>

Dear All, I wanted to know whether there is a way to Unicast a delegate? I mean suppose we have multiple clients and a server. We want to fire a an event and some of these clients not all of them receive this event. I think this is possible but I don't know how. I look forward to hearing from...more >>

Hi I'm pretty new to the mechanics of Remoting and I'm busy trying to get my head around it all. I have what I think is a pretty basic question. I have contructed the most simple testing class I could in C# which gets compiled into myLibrary.dll - code follows below. myLibrary.cs name...more >>