Welcome to the second issue of the Distributed .NET Newsletter!

The Truth about Lifetime Management in .NET Remoting

Each and every .NET object's lifetime is managed by the garbage collector (GC). But as soon as Remoting enters the game, conventional garbage collection doesn't work anymore because it's impossible to track all existing references. That's why Remoting introduced leases and sponsors to manage the lifetime of remoted objects. But how do they work? Are there actually two different GCs in the .NET Framework? [Read more]

SoapSuds vs. Interfaces

One of the main tasks in the development of distributed applications is to determine which interfaces you want to support. .NET Remoting allows you to distributed the necessary information in a number of different ways, the two most popular being the use of SoapSuds on one hand and the use of interfaces defined in a shared DLL on the other. In this article, I take a strong position in favor of using interfaces. What's you opinion? [Read more]

Remoting-Links

During the last months, I've been collecting a number of .NET Remoting-related links. The list currently covers links about security, custom channels, articles, add-ons and tools. [Read more]

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