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Robert Wehofer

Hello!

I would like to know, how .NET could replace COM? How is it possible?

Imagine an application, which is a COM server, where a client could get
informations or call functions (e.g. I would like to know the name of the
current opened project in the application). The client has to reference the
current running COM server (in VB you use GetObject). Then I get
informations about the current running application.

How can .NET live up to that expectations?
You can reference certain assemblies, but those assemblies are loaded
explicitely to the process of my application. How can I reference to an
already loaded assembly. Do you need .NET remoting for that demand?

Robert

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Jochen Kalmbach

Hello Robert,

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There is no really equivalent of (D)COM. Maybe someone will say that you
should use "Remoting".

See: .NET Remoting Overview
http://msdn.microsoft.com/=/library/en-
us/cpguide/html/cpconnetremotingoverview.asp

You can also use Web-Services (which is usefull in some scenarios).

From my point of view, there is at the moment no alternative to (D)COM
Servers!

Remoting works well, but is too complicated and much too slow to replace
(D)COM.

> How can .NET live up to that expectations?

As I said, you can use Remoting. Also you can use Web-Services which is
also "trendy" (and usefull for some scenarios).

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Do you mean to an assembly in an different process ? This can only be done
via Remoting.

I would suggest to wait for "Indigo" which really replaces (D)COM.

See: Indigo
http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/understanding/pillars/Indigo/default.asp
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Greetings
Jochen

My blog about Win32 and .NET
http://blog.kalmbachnet.de/

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Robert Wehofer

Hello Jochen!

[Original message clipped]

Yes, I meant it that way. So I need to read literature about .NET remoting.

Thanks for you interesting answer,
Robert

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