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

Remoting stability, reliability and scalability

You have to develop stable and reliable applications based on .NET Remoting? If yes, then you really have to read this article in which I discuss a number of use cases for Remoting and its features. I also explicitly point out which features you can use without having to expect any issues (and in which environments) and which of them should be avoided altogether. If you use .NET Remoting in your applications, you owe it to yourself to read this best practices article.  [Read more]

Changes for Remoting in .NET 1.1 / Visual Studio .NET 2003

With the introduction of version 1.1 of the .NET Framework, a number of Remoting-related changes have been made. Most of them are focused at increasing reliability, stability, scalability, and security of .NET applications and I therefore consider them A Good Thing. Unfortunately though, they broke a number of samples in my books (and in all the other Remoting books out there) and might also break your code. [Read more]

WebCast - Today at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm Eastern

Yes, I admit that this is a pretty short notice. You can join me in a live MSDN WebCast today at 11:00 am PDT, 2:00 pm Eastern Time. In this webcast, I'll talk about .NET Remoting, discuss the differences to web services and will also show best practices. [Register here, it's free]

Thank you

I'd like to shout out a big "Thank you" to everyone who took the time to vote for "Advanced .NET Remoting" in the .NET Developer's Journal's Reader's Choice Award. You made it possible that my book is currently running as #1! Wooohoo! Let's see if we can stay #1 for the next couple of weeks.

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Regards from Austria, Europe