When reading the title of this book, you might ask yourself “Why did they put remoting,
reflection, and threading together in one book?” The answer might not seem obvious at first,
but after reading this introduction you should understand why these three technologies belong
in a developer’s toolkit and in a single book. These three technologies share the following benefits:
• Flexibility: Today’s business needs demand that applications have the capability to
grow with the business. All three of these technologies bring that flexibility to the table
in a variety of ways.
• Power: Although .NET has brought about a highly powerful development platform by
itself, the inclusion of these three core technologies gives .NET developers the ability to
create powerful solutions with minimal effort.
• Ease of Use: Flexibility and power are great features to have, but they don’t mean anything
if they come at the price of complex APIs and increased development time.
Three powerful technologies-- Remoting, Reflection, and Threading-- are combined in a single book! And when these technologies come together, you are faced with a powerful range of tools that allow you to run code faster, more securely, and more flexibly. (And performance gains are critical in today's industry!) So you'll be able to code applications across the spectrum--from a single machine to an entire network.
This book begins by discussing the most fundamental of the three techniques: .NET Remoting in VB.NET--which allows you to customize your application communication processes. The next portion of the book covers Reflection, which allows you to examine code at run time, regardless of prior knowledge of its structure. Finally, the book explores Threading, which helps break up your application into multiple, independent threads.
