Remoting .NET Remoting is a technology designed to allow .NET-centric applications to communicate with each other, whether on the same computer, on different computers on the same LAN or across the world on homogeneous platforms hosting the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Remote Object This is the object that encapsulates the functionality to be consumed. It can invoke its methods from a client application by either dynamically creating a full copy and accessing it on the local machine (marshal-by-value) or by maintaining an open channel with the remote machine and let parameters and return values travel back and forth to carry out the call (marshal-by-reference). ptii-901 Remote Client This is the client application that consumes the functionality exposed by a known remote object hosted on a server or any other computer. ptii-902