i'm using custom sink channels to encrypt (among other things) my remoting tcp channels, but i've noticed that for every call, even though its a client activated object, it opens a new tcp connection and leaves it open until i run out of available sockets at around 4000 connections (8000 showi...more >>

I have a two computer network. Neither computer is running a DNS server. On one computer, I have assigned multiple IP addresses to its network card (kind of simulates multiple network cards). Now, if I run a .net remoting service on this computer and leave its DNS entry empty, when my clien...more >>

hi i'm currently implementing a distributed chat application (yes another one - for university) using MarshalByRefObjects (with RemoteConfiguration.RegisterWellKnownServiceType and Activator.GetObject and stuff around) now i want to (and did) implement a reconnect method that tries to rea...more >>

Hi all, Now I know that we can call .NET remoting components asynchronously from ASP.NET pages and it works like a charm! But I am concerned about the behavior of the overall system in this case and how does ASP.NET handle threads. (1) Lets say I asynchronously call .NET remoting component...more >>

Guys, My ASP.NET application (on SERVER-A) has been calling .NET remoting components that are hosted in IIS (on SERVER-B). So far i have been calling components in synchronous fashion where my ASP.NET page waits for the call to return. But new requirments just came and now I would have to ...more >>

Hi everybody, I'm trying to build an application msn like to play chess with my friends. I have almost done everything, I have the chat form, and it works pretty good. To do this, I use TcpListener and TcpClient, threads and a ChatMessage serializable class that contains the body of a message...more >>

I've been using this for a couple days now and its all working well but I can't yet figure out how have just an interface in the library used by the server and the client. The OpenFile example does have an IFoo but it doesnt use it. Searching google the only sample code I found uses Activa...more >>

In an application using .NET remoting (the remoted server is hosted in IIS), a long-running remoted call terminates after running for around 46 minutes. There is no exception thrown on the server, nor do the ASP.NET performance counters register any application or worker process restarts. T...more >>

I have an assembly that mainly communicates to clients via events. I need to turn this into a remotable service. I read that remoting events can be error prone, so I read an article about the setting up a Listener and Broadcaster (that keeps an collection of Listeners). This works great except...more >>

I am trying to implement client activated objects hosted by IIS using a shared DLL that has interfaces for the object. I am new to remoting and used the Ingo Rammer's book Advanced .NET Remoting to get started. I can get the Basic\RemotingObjects example that Microsoft provides to work but th...more >>

I have a .NET Remoting object hosted in IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 (happens before and after installing SP1) at an endpoint (ASP.NET application virtual folder) named "CompanyXYZReporting". The remoted object is called several times every day and works perfectly except every 2-3 weeks when we c...more >>

I have a timer which calls a method every 4 minutes. If the default lifetime is set to 5 minutes shouldn't the timer call prevent the object from ever disconnecting? ...more >>

I am getting a bit confused on some of this SSL stuff with regards to .NET Remoting. It's new to me. What I know I learned this morning. Our windows form client uses a remote dal hosted by IIS. I want to secure the data being transferred back\forth from the client to this remote server....more >>

Hi, For some reason, I am not able to configure my client's configuration using xml. I get the following error: ..Config file ..\..\ConsoleJobClient.exe.config can not be read successfully due to exception System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException: channel entries must contain a type ...more >>

Hi OK. In order to communicate with a remotable object, I leave the port I've set in the config file open. But how on earth can I know what port .net remoting chooses for callback events (port="0") in order to leave it opened too? Does anyone have this problem?...more >>

There seems to be a bug when deserialization some classes in the .NET framework. If you try to deserialize a class that has a base class that holds a struct with a member that is implementing the ICollection interface, this causes the deserialization to fail. In my case this is a huge prob...more >>

Dear Groups, I am trying to develop a simple client <-> server application where (for database security reasons) the server only has access to the centralised database (and a file repository), and not the client. I think the best way to do this is to expose data layer objects using Remot...more >>

Hi, In all the .Net documentation that I've seen you can only remote class members and events, not methods. I'm looking to do some parrallel computing and am hoping to be able to push out my class methods to an array of host computers. Are there any hacks to get remoting to do this? Two ...more >>

Hi, I have a remoting problem concerning returning a control from a service to a client app... the code is as follow : <code start> dim x as MyControl x = MyDistantObject.GetMyControl() MyForm.Controls.Add(x) <code end> The MyDistantObject is valid. the x object seems to be set when...more >>

Hi, I have a web project written in asp.net, vb and runs a SQL Server 2000 back end. My Data Tier will be on another machine run as a remote object. For now I am testing it on one machine using HTTP as the transport layer. When trying to connect my Event Viewer catches this error... Th...more >>

Hi, I have a weird remoting issue: I have a remoted service (SAO, SingleUse) running on the network, and a windows client to access it. When I start the client it can connect OK. If I keep the client busy, it's still OK. But when I don't touch the client for 5-10 minutes (after connecti...more >>

i have a remoting host on my dev machine which works perfectly but when brought onto server machine it starts but does not seem to accept any connections. I do a netstat -a and the port is listening and when i connect to the server i actually see the server creating the hosted objects but all t...more >>

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Hi Am using Remoting. My server PASSES an exception that includes SqlClient.SqlError as it's inner exception to the client. When running remoting locally on my XP Pro pc, the exception object gets to the client without any problems. BUT when running with the remoting service on an Window...more >>

Hi, i have a Singleton working as a 'factory' for MbR objects (sessions). Clients call the Create-method on the singleton, which returns a MbR object. What about multithreading in such an environment ? Is there any chance to ensure multithreading ? any help appreciated... ...more >>

Hi, I am having a problem with BinaryFormatter Version incompatibility. This is the setup. I have a VB6 COM+ component on server A and an application proxy (server application) of that component on server B where my .NET web application is running. I am able to use the COM+ component from the...more >>

Hi Sorry if I post this on the wrong group, but I feel that the problem solution would be related to the changing code in the Remoting communication part. I am working on an project with a client connecting to the backend via both WebServices and Remoting over http hosted by IIS 5. Th...more >>

I need small help. Let me explain my problem first. I developed smart clinet application, i.e A webservice, which returns large dataset( more than 1 lakh records) to clinet(windows application) on demand. here every thing is working fine excluding performance. Here my problem ...more >>

I'm working with the problem of building a client that acts gracefully if the remoting server is not available. What I've found is that once a socket exception occurs because the server can't be found, I need to reload the assembly and re-configure the remoting system before it'll work agai...more >>

I am hoping an expert can answer this query. I have created a simple app to REMOTE an object. The object I am remoting (which is a collection based on a DataView of a DataTable) implements IBindingList. It works until I try to bind the remote object to a DataGrid. I then get the message bel...more >>

Server is hosted by service, client by app, both respond normally to the calls from application. Two different dotNet frameworks 1.0 SP2 were installed after the 1.1 on this W2000. System.ArgumentException Error binding to target method. while trying to subscribe to events like this ...more >>

I'm developing a Remoting project and after reading and testing a LOT with all the posibilities, I'm getting trouble with an "architectural" topic. I have a console app hosting a remotable object quite well, and during testing, I can conect with simple "client" apps with all the necesary code ...more >>

I have managed to get my remote type hosted in IIS on a separate server and previously was able to call this from a web form on a second server. I do both my client and server remoting config via config files rather than in code. I know it is dumb but once I was happy with this I tidied up ...more >>

Hi All In the .NET Framework is there any way to provide the proxy authentication the way internet explorer prompts. I mean when I access the net using internet explorer it asks for the username and password. I want that when I create a Web-Request it also prompts for the username and passw...more >>

not sure if this is the right place for this, but anyway... I have an application which works closely with a second app. The second app needs to be able to signal the first app asynchronously. The first app will respond to this signal by performing a certain task. What is the simplest way...more >>

I have a singleton server side object published by .Net C# remoting. In the client side after creating the object, how can I know when the server is down by receiving connection down event? The server does not have a keep alive method that I can call every X seconds and check it. ...more >>

I am try to use integrated windows authentication with CAOs= hosted in IIS=2E I am using Framework 1=2E1=2E According to MSDN, I= should be able to supply me own credentials in the channel= properties, but when I do this I always get (401) Unauthorized=2E= This is true even when I explicitl...more >>

I have a class in an interface asembly <Serializable()> Public Class CallerInfo Public Sub New(ByVal CallerIdentity As String, ByVal CallerAppDomain As String, ByVal CallerMachineName As String) Me.CallerAppDomain = CallerAppDomain Me.CallerIdentity = Call...more >>

I have a Windows service that checks the availability of something. I use remoting to publish events, and I've gotten multiple Windows forms applications to subscribe to these events. Now, I want my ASP.NET web application to subscribe to these events as well. In my ASP.NET application I have...more >>

i am having 2 c# dlls ... with class A in 1 of the dll and class B in the 2nd one one of the member function(create) of class A tries to create the instance of class B in a different Appdomain i have 2 client applications 1) a vc# client application 2) a vc++ client application both try ...more >>

How can I make a C# application communicate with another one by sending it 2 integers? I searched in the 'Remoting' section in MSDN, but in vain. Thank you ...more >>

C# application. Client and server using Tcp channel remoting. The clients see the server just fine. I wanted the server to send the clients an event when an update came in. I added an event to the server object, fixed up all the security issues, and the event is getting fired back to the cl...more >>

We have a small exe that creates a new appdoman, sets its configurationfile to a config file on our web server and then launches another exe inside this new appdomain. All works well accept when we need to call into a remote server from this new appdomain. We use the configuration file to ...more >>