Bonnie/Rodney,

I have not personally used Remoting, not to mention done a speed comparison between WS and Remoting. However, early this year, at VS Live conference, I heard several of the speakers encouraging developers to look closely at Remoting since it provides better performance and richer programming model than WS.

Keep in mind however, that I have not played with this. I am just letting you know what I've heard. I feel like a "real" consultant today :)

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>Another option might be to avoid remoting altogether and access your server-side components via WebServices.
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>~~Bonnie
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>>Hi,
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Rodney