How do I get a reference to a remote object created at the server from the server???

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Hello All - A question from a Remoting newbie... I am attempting to perform .NET remoting by creating 1 application which can register as a client or a server. I am able to access the desired object from the client doing this. I am using a singleton object along with a TCP channel, and am attempting to call methods from the server side in order to set the values to be viewed from the client side. Question 1 - Can this be done? (I starting to think Remoting objects are somewhat useless since I cannot seem to be able to get a reference, thus I can only use hard-coded objects with no references) Question 2 - Can someone provide a sample of how to communicate, from the server side, with a remoting object? My email address is [email protected]

p.jones · Answer

You have developed your own class that is fired up by the server program that uses it in the form of 1 object that serves all clients. You want the host server program to be able to get a reference to that object so you can call methods on it as well as allowing clients to call methods on it. Since you don't fire up the instance you aren't able to get a reference to the object for use by other code in that same server. You could try setting up an event that is fired by the constructor and setting up a handle for that and see if that way you can wait until the object is fired up and then retrieve a handle to it from that event's parameters. Let us know I am heading towards remoteing myself.