In the time since the first edition of this book has been published, quite a bit has changed in the
world of software development on Microsoft’s platforms. The .NET Framework has become
a tried-and-true development platform, and service orientation gained a larger-than-expected
momentum. The latter especially presents a very challenging task for the developer using .NET
Remoting: the need to avoid possible incompatibilities with future paradigms. If service orientation
will, in the next few years, gain the success it deserves, it might be important for your
application to be developed in a way to easily adopt these new ideas.
In this book, I have therefore followed a slightly different approach from
