Pro .NET 1.1 Remoting, Reflection, and Threading

Syed Fahad Gilani has more than 15 years of experience in computing. He sold his first program at the age of 10.

• Pro .NET 1.1 Remoting, Reflection, and Threading TOBIN TITUS, SYED FAHAD GILANI, MIKE GILLESPIE, JAMES HART, BENNY K. MATHEW, ANDY OLSEN, DAVID CURRAN, JON PINNOCK, ROBIN PARS, FABIO CLAUDIO FERRACCHIATI, SANDRA GOPIKRISHNA, TEJASWI REDKAR, SRINIVASA SIVAKUMAR Pro .NET 1.1 Remoting, Reflection, and Threading Copyright (c) 2005 by Tobin Titus, Syed Fahad Gilani, Mike Gillespie, James Hart, Benny K. Mathew, Andy Olsen, David Curran, Jon Pinnock, Robin Pars, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati, Sandra Gopikrishna, Tejaswi Redkar, Srinivasa Sivakumar All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN: 1-59059-452-5 Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Lead Editor: Ewan Buckingham Technical Reviewers: Rick Delorme, Don Reamey Editorial Board: Steve Anglin, Dan Appleman, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Tony Davis, Jason Gilmore, Jonathan Hassell, Chris Mills, Dominic Shakeshaft, Jim Sumser Assistant Publisher: Grace Wong Project Manager: Beckie Stones Copy Manager: Nicole LeClerc Copy Editor: Julie McNamee Production Manager: Kari Brooks-Copony Production Editor: Kelly Winquist Compositor: Kinetic Publishing Services, LLC Proofreader: Patrick Vincent Indexer: Michael Brinkman Artist: Kinetic Publishing Services, LLC Cover Designer: Kurt Krames Manufacturing Manager: Tom Debolski Distributed to the book trade in the United States by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 233 Spring Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013, and outside the United States by Springer-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69112 Heidelberg, Germany. In the United States: phone 1-800-SPRINGER, fax 201-348-4505, e-mail orders@springer-ny.com, or visit http://www.springer-ny.com. Outside the United States: fax +49 6221 345229, e-mail orders@springer.de, or visit http://www.springer.de. For information on translations, please contact Apress directly at 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 219, Berkeley, CA 94710. Phone 510-549-5930, fax 510-549-5939, e-mail info@apress.com, or visit http://www.apress.com. The information in this book is distributed on an as is basis, without warranty. Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this work, neither the author(s) nor Apress shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this work. The source code for this book is available to readers at http://www.apress.com in the Downloads section. Contents at a Glance About the Author ... xv About the Technical Reviewers... xvii Acknowledgments ... xix Introduction... xxi CHAPTER 1 Introducing .NET Remoting... 1 CHAPTER 2 Remoting Basics... 15 CHAPTER 3 Custom Remoting... 43 CHAPTER 4 Configuration and Deployment ... 99 CHAPTER 5 Asynchronous Remoting ... 127 CHAPTER 6 Debugging and Error Handling ... 159 CHAPTER 7 Flexible Programming ... 209 CHAPTER 8 Examining Assemblies, Objects, and Types ... 223 CHAPTER 9 Using Objects... 251 CHAPTER 10 Creating Objects ... 279 CHAPTER 11 Attributes ... 301 CHAPTER 12 The .NET Component Model... 343 CHAPTER 13 Defining Threads ... 397 CHAPTER 14 Threading in .NET... 421 CHAPTER 15 Working with Threads... 469 CHAPTER 16 Threading Models ... 519 CHAPTER 17 Scaling Threaded Applications ... 535 CHAPTER 18 Debugging and Tracing Threads ... 563 CHAPTER 19 Networking and Threading ... 593 INDEX... 619 v