[Mono-list] Remoting and Type Activation

[Lluis Sanchez]

The rules are easy. MarshalByRefObject derived objects are passed by
reference, which means that the object keeps running in the process that
created it, and the client gets a reference to the remote object.
Objects not derived from MarshalByRefObject and marked as serializable,
are passed as value, which means that a copy of the object will be sent
to the process requesting the object, and it will run there.

Lluis.

On dv, 2004-08-27 at 22:19, Matthew Metnetsky wrote:
> I'm trying to make a small library I have remotable without much luck. 
> I've following the examples at MSDN
> 
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconbuildingbasicnetremotingapplication.asp), which of course works fine.  I've even extended it to try and better mimic the basic design ideas of my library, and that works too.
> 
> But the second I try it on my library it fails.  I can create the class
> which starts my library fine, but when I call it to return an instance
> of my database manager it starts returning local copies (as debugged by
> Console.WriteLine("server") vs. Console.WriteLine("client") at different
> levels.  The library itself is way to large to attach yet alone
> understand with a quick glimpse so I was wondering if anyone was willing
> to give some pointers.  
> 
> - What causes the Remoting framework to switch from server to client?
> - How might I force this to not happen?
> - Do all classes have to be serializable/marshal even when they're not
> the directly used/access?
> - Any thing else I might be missing?
> 
> I'm on Mono CVS and using TCP Client based Remoting.
> 
> ~ Matthew
> 
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