Session 7

.NET Remoting II

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Session Objectives Discuss the three types of Remoting

classes Explain passing objects to remote

methods Explain asynchronous calls to a

remote method Discuss Lifetime management

in .NET Remoting

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Passing objects to Remote methods (1)

In .NET remoting, the classes of the objects that can be passed as parameters to remote methods arecategorized as –

Marshal by reference Marshal by value Non-Remotable

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Passing objects to Remote methods (2) Example 1 -

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Passing objects to Remote methods (3)

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Inheriting from class System.MarshalByRefObject Example 2 -

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Inheriting from class System.MarshalByRefObject

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Methods that return objects Example 3 -

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Remoting Server Example 4 -

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Building a client Example 5 -

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Output After executing example 4

followed by example 5

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Executing the client Client console in example 5 will

resemble -

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Asynchronous Remoting

Client makes a call to a method and then continues to perform other tasks

When the server is available it processes the method and returns the result to the client at a later time

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Asynchronous Remoting Example 6 -

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Lifetime Management -1 Lifetime management holds good

for clients that are activated as Singleton objects

Properties configured for Lifetime management -

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Lifetime Management -2 Example 7 -

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Lifetime Management -3

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Lifetime Management -4 Modification -

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Example 5 - Modified Example 8 -

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Example 8 - Output