Compiling and Running the Basic Application
To use the command-line tools that ship with the .NET Framework SDK to compile the basic remoting application built in the topics Building a Remotable Type, Building a Host Application, and Building a Client Application, save all files in a directory called Listener,
using the names specified in those topics. At the command prompt in the Listener
directory, type the following commands:
Visual Basic
vbc /t:library RemotableType.vb
vbc /r:RemotableType.dll Listener.vb
vbc /r:RemotableType.dll Client.vb
C#
csc /noconfig /t:library RemotableType.cs
csc /noconfig /r:RemotableType.dll Listener.cs
csc /noconfig /r:RemotableType.dll Client.cs
To run the application
Create a subdirectory called
Client
.Copy the
RemotableType.dll
,Client.exe
, andClient.exe.config
files to theClient
directory.At the command prompt in the
Listener
directory, type:Listener
When the
Listener
application is running, open a new command prompt in theClient
directory and type:Client
Changing the Channel
Because the Listener.exe.config
and Client.exe.config
files contain all the configuration information necessary to make a remote connection, you can change the channel without recompiling your application merely by changing the channel specified in the configuration file.
To change the channel to a TcpChannel object, which uses binary serialization by default, you merely change the <wellknown> element in the Client.exe.config
file to the following:
<wellknown
type="RemotableType, RemotableType"
url="tcp://localhost:8989/RemotableType.rem"
/>
You must also change the <channel> element in the Listener.exe.config
file to the following:
<channel ref="tcp" port="8989"/>
Rerun the application according to the preceding execution instructions. You do not need to recompile the application.