Advanced .Net Remoting (C# Edition)

I hate it when I pay good money for a poorly written book. So when I buy a book like this and it turns out so well, I am thrilled! I have been in ".NET land" since 2001 when .NET beta 2 came out. I have written ASP.NET and Winform applications. During that time I just have not had the need to use .NET remoting, until now. The first 2 or 3 chapters are a great introduction for experienced .NET developers. I like the fact that I did not have to wade through a lot of stuff for beginners. From there the topics get advanced, with plenty of good example code to highlight the topics. Even though I had never really touched .NET remoting (except SOAP Web Services), the explanations and examples work well for me. The author keeps the examples simple, and on-topic. In my opinion, this helps to highlight the topics at hand. The content is geared towards real programmers who will be using the technology. I also have really enjoyed the authors' candor concerning the weaknesses of .NET remoting. They have already highlighted a bad approach that I was considering. I am more than happy to give this book a 5 star review!

Aside from being a #1 guide to .net remoting this book should be used as an example on how to write programming volumes with words 'advanced' and 'professional' in the title.Around 400 pages with absolutely 0% beginner material and no useless content is what i expect when i buy an 'advanced' book. And its exactly what what this one is.Good job Mr.Rammer. Will be checking out all your publications in the future.Update:I've been writing a rather contrived remoting based application and the chapters 7, 8 and 9 have been really worth it for me. However, these chapters give a little too brief coverage of MessageSinks and underlying plumbing. I do appreciate the strong focus on details, but so many things are left unexplained that it becomes really frustrating if you are trying to really understand what's going on.One particular problem in my application was to forward the threads CurrentPrincipal to the thread on the remoting server via MessageSinks. I still am not sure exactly why I am using ClientChannelSink vs just doing it with IMessageSink... previous chapters lead you to believe that IMessageSink is designed for something like this. This is just one example and there are other instances where a similar thing might throw you off a bit. Nevertheless, if you are looking at a guide to just using Remoting (not playing around with its plumbing) you wont go wrong with this book.

Finally, a book that's not all fluff. I didn't need another book to go over the .Net language and framework at a high (Beginners level) AGAIN, like so many other books that are out there. I needed some real information on how to implement this VERY important technology that somehow seems to have been glossed over in lieu of Web services. I work for a consulting company that continually creates intranet applications for some major financial players and up until now we've been using a Web based model. Well now we are using .Net remoting with windows forms and it is like night and Day. Ingo Rammer covers all of the important topics and methods that you (the professional developer) will need to know. It's thorough, it's clear ,it's concise, and it's directly to the point. Each topic is clearly explained and all of his examples are easy(enough ) to follow. Ever serious developer must have a copy of this on his book shelf. Ingo even directly answered some questions I had by email that saved me hours of needless work. 5 STARS (I'd give it 10 if I could)

This has to be one of the best .NET books I have read. It goes way beyond the documentation and explains Remoting in a very clear and concise manner. Ingo Rammer points out pros/cons of the various remoting techniques and offers solutions/suggestions to common problems. He also explains the advanced details in a way that even I could understand ;-). I would recommend this book to anyone who plans on building applications with .NET.

Amazingly insightful book that goes well beyond the documentation in explaining the underpinnings of .NET remoting. Very concise and thoroughly understandable examples and source code. If you're a .NET developer or architect and want to understand the real impact of .NET on distributed systems, this is the only book available to guide you. Ingo has spent some time down in the internals of .NET remoting and both his book and his website, www.dotnetremoting.cc, clearly set the standard for grasping the true impact of the .NET framework.Well done!!...