exposing an object serviced by a window service program to .NET cl

19 Jul 2006 5:32 PM

Benny

I have a window service in .NET and would like to expose an object
(serverobj) for other .NET clients to call. When the clients connects to
serverobj, I need the instance of the object provided by the window service
instances.

I created a client and add a referenct to the service program, when invoking
the serverobj, it refers an instance of serverobj that is not in the process
space of the window service.

In unmanaged code, I would register the class factory for serverobj and have
the client code call CoCreateInstance on serverobj.

How do I make this happen is .NET (i.e., the serverobj served will be from
the window service instance)?

Thanks.

19 Jul 2006 5:46 PM

Chris Mullins

The technology you want is called Remoting.

It's a very well documented topic in the MSDN help. To jumpstart your
reading of the help, you're going to want to pay attention to the following
keywords as you read:

TCP Channel
Binary Formatter
MarshalByRef derived classes.

--
Chris Mullins

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"Benny" <blee@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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>I have a window service in .NET and would like to expose an object
> (serverobj) for other .NET clients to call. When the clients connects to
> serverobj, I need the instance of the object provided by the window
> service
> instances.
>
> I created a client and add a referenct to the service program, when
> invoking
> the serverobj, it refers an instance of serverobj that is not in the
> process
> space of the window service.
>
> In unmanaged code, I would register the class factory for serverobj and
> have
> the client code call CoCreateInstance on serverobj.
>
> How do I make this happen is .NET (i.e., the serverobj served will be from
> the window service instance)?
>
> Thanks.

19 Jul 2006 9:11 PM

Benny

Thanks for the info. Got it working.