Hi,

I am working on a three tier web app, with a C# business tier that is accessed using remoting, and a SQL server database. I am preparing for implementation, and I am confused as to what type of remoting configuration to use. Currently, I have the middle tier running as a windows service on the development server. However, after reading Advanced .NET remoting from Ingo Rammer, I'm not sure that the architecture I have will work. The remoting objects are accessed using a TCP connection and an open port number. After reading the Configuration and Deployment section of the aforementioned book, I am not sure if people coming from the Internet will be able to use the TCP method of connecting through the firewall.

Hosting the remoting objects in IIS would solve my problem, but incur a performance penalty. If anyone has attempted anything like this, could you let me know what you did, and why? Any information would be appreciated. I would like to get an idea what would work best, before I start to rework the code.


Thanks,

Rodney