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Professional C# Web Services

Running the Server and the Client

Let's take a step back to look at the files we created so far. This table helps to summarize the files and assemblies and their purposes:

Class	Source File	Assembly File	Description
MyRemoteObject	MyRemoteObject.cs	MyRemoteObject.dll	Remote object class. We offer the Hello() method.
SimpleServer	SimpleServer.cs	SimpleServer.exe	The server creates and registers a server channel. We use the configuration file SimpleServer.exe.config to configure the channel and the remote object.
SimpleClient	SimpleClient.cs	SimpleClient.exe	The client application. The configuration file SimpleClient.exe.config defines how to connect to the remote object.

Starting the server and then the client we get the following output from the client:

This is the output screen from the server. We can see that the constructor of the remote object is called twice. The remoting infrastructure instantiates the remote object once before the client activation takes place:

As we have seen it was an easy task to build a simple client and server: create a remote object class, and implement a client and a server. If we are using configuration files, only one remoting call is necessary to read the configuration file and start the channel.

There's a lot more that is provided by .NET remoting. In the next section we will look at more of the terms of this architecture, and discuss all the sub-namespaces and their purpose.

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Created: February 13, 2002
Revised: February 13, 2002

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