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.NET Remoting

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Subsumed by windows communication framework

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.NET Remoting [1, 2] is a Microsoft technology comprising a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for interprocess communication available within the .NET Framework. .NET Remoting serves as the distribution middleware layer, which enables communication between distributed applications that can choose their own transport protocol, serialization format, an application model and different schemes to manage object lifetimes.

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Central to the .NET Remoting architecture is the notion of a remotable object and a brokering capability that enables communication between application domains. An application domain in the .NET framework provides a type-safe and secure unit of execution and isolation. .NET Remoting makes it feasible for multiple application domains to communicate with each other without concern for whether they are hosted within the same operating system process, or across multiple different...

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  1. .NET Framework Remoting Architecture. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2e7z38xb.aspx

  2. Microsoft Technologies, .NET Remoting: Core Protocol Specification, [MS-NRTP] v20080207, Feb 2008.

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  1. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Aniruddha Gokhale

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King’s College Road, M5S 3G4, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Hans-Arno Jacobsen

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Gokhale, A. (2017). .NET Remoting. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_1204-2

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