*Provided tools complement the popular Service Oriented architectural design style advocated by Microsoft.

"Three powerful technologies are combined in a single book: Remoting, Reflection, and Threading. 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 todays industry!) So youll be able to code applications across the spectrumfrom a single machine to an entire network.This book begins by discussing the most fundamental of the three techniques: .NET Remoting in VB.NETwhich 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. TOC:Introduction to modern .NET ProgrammingOverview of Remoting, Reflection and Threading in contextRemoting BasicsCustom RemotingConfiguration and DeploymentAsychronous RemotingDebugging and Error HandlingFlexible ProgrammingExamining Assemblies, Objects and TypesUsing ObjectsCreating ObjectsAttributesThe .NET Component ModelThreading in .NETWorking in ThreadsDesign PatternsScaling Threaded ApplicationsDebugging and Tracing ThreadsNetworking and Threading"

Introducing .NET Remoting.- Remoting Basics.- Custom Remoting.- Configuration and Deployment.- Asynchronous Remoting.- Debugging and Error Handling.- Flexible Programming.- Examining Assemblies, Objects, and Types.- Using Objects.- Creating Objects.- Attributes.- The .NET Component Model.- Defining Threads.- Threading in .NET.- Working with Threads.- Threading Models.- Scaling Threaded Applications.- Debugging and Tracing Threads.- Networking and Threading.