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How can .NET replace COM? Messages   Related Types This message was discovered on microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.interop. Post a new message to this list... Robert Wehofer Hello! I would like to know, how .NET could replace COM? How is it possible? Imagine an application, which is a COM server, where a client could get informations or call functions (e.g. I would like to know the name of the current opened project in the application). The client has to reference the current running COM server (in VB you use GetObject). Then I get informations about the current running application. How can .NET live up to that expectations? You can reference certain assemblies, but those assemblies are loaded explicitely to the process of my application. How can I reference to an already loaded assembly. Do you need .NET remoting for that demand? Robert Reply to this message...        Jochen Kalmbach Hello Robert, [Original message clipped] There is no really equivalent of (D)COM. Maybe someone will say that you should use "Remoting". See: .NET Remoting Overview http://msdn.microsoft.com/=/library/en- us/cpguide/html/cpconnetremotingoverview.asp You can also use Web-Services (which is usefull in some scenarios). From my point of view, there is at the moment no alternative to (D)COM Servers! Remoting works well, but is too complicated and much too slow to replace (D)COM. > How can .NET live up to that expectations? As I said, you can use Remoting. Also you can use Web-Services which is also "trendy" (and usefull for some scenarios). [Original message clipped] Do you mean to an assembly in an different process ? This can only be done via Remoting. I would suggest to wait for "Indigo" which really replaces (D)COM. See: Indigo http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/understanding/pillars/Indigo/default.asp x -- Greetings Jochen My blog about Win32 and .NET http://blog.kalmbachnet.de/ Reply to this message...        Robert Wehofer Hello Jochen! [Original message clipped] Yes, I meant it that way. So I need to read literature about .NET remoting. Thanks for you interesting answer, Robert Reply to this message...     Ad MBR BootFX Best-of-breed application framework for .NET projects, developed by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds and MBR IT

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