How to Configure More than one class in Web.config for Remoting

[balamemory]

Hi,

I have a small doubt on Remoting.

If I have more than one class(In same Solution or Assembly) implementing Remoting.

How shall I Configure it in Web.config for both client and server side?

I am giving a snippet for one class:

Server Side:
<wellknown mode="Singleton" objectUri="Server.rem" type="Server.Class1, Server"
/>

Client Side:
<wellknown
url="http://Remoteserver/VirtualDirectory/Server.rem"
type="Server.Class1, Server"
/>

Now If I have another class (Class2) which is also implementing Remoting Concept in the same Solution file Server then how to configure in the configuration file.

I tried giving another <well known> tag but it didn't work rather it ruined the functionality of the first class too.

Please Help.

[ghilal]

The config files can be picky sometimes. If there is a missing / tag or anything else syntactically wrong it will fail everything.

I have done this on several projects with mutiple classes in the same assembly.

Here is the server code snipit (web.config)

<system.runtime.remoting>
   <application>

<channels>
		<channel ref="http" >		
			<serverProviders>			
				<provider ref="wsdl" />			
				<formatter ref="soap" typeFilterLevel="Full" />			
				<formatter ref="binary" typeFilterLevel="Full" />
			</serverProviders>
			<clientProviders>
				<formatter ref="binary" />
			</clientProviders>
		</channel>
   </channels>
            
  
  
       <service>
            <wellknown 
               mode="SingleCall" objectUri="CustomerMaster.rem" 
               type="SupportLib.CustomerMaster,SupportLib"/>
         </service>
         
         <service>
            <wellknown 
               mode="SingleCall" objectUri="BuyerMaster.rem" 
               type="SupportLib.BuyerMaster,SupportLib"/>
         </service>
	
    </application>
  </system.runtime.remoting>

Here is the app config(client)

<system.runtime.remoting>
   <application>

    
        <channels>
            <channel ref="http">
               <clientProviders>
                  <formatter ref="binary" />
               </clientProviders>
            </channel>
       </channels>

        <client>
            <wellknown 
               url="http://bigg:80/dashboardserver/BuyerMaster.rem"
               type="SupportLib.BuyerMaster,SupportLib"
            />
        </client>
        
        <client>
            <wellknown 
               url="http://bigg:80/dashboardserver/CustomerMaster.rem"
               type="SupportLib.CustomerMaster,SupportLib"
            />
        </client >



		
    </application>
  </system.runtime.remoting>

A quick way to test if your server config file doesn' have syntax errors is to create a basic aspx page and put it on the remoting server (assuming you are using IIS as the remoting server). If there is anything wrong in the config file the page will fail.

sample: http://bigg/dashboardserver/test.aspx

All you need is a single aspx page like this. test.aspx

<%
Response.Write("Test it")
%>

[Tonchi]

Hi there,

Basically,you have

Server Side:
<wellknown mode="Singleton" objectUri="Server.rem" type="Server.Class2, Server"
/>

Client Side:
<wellknown
url="http://Remoteserver/VirtualDirectory/Server.Class2.rem"
type="Server.Class2, Server"
/>

or maybe

Server Side:
<wellknown mode="Singleton" objectUri="Class2.rem" type="Server.Class2, Server"
/>

Client Side:
<wellknown
url="http://Remoteserver/VirtualDirectory/Server.Class2.rem"
type="Server.Class2, Server"
/>


which are in 2 web.configs. One goes at the root of the virtual dir of the calling web app, and the other in the root of the virtual dir of the receiving class lib dll. I just went thru this, these last 2 days. You need in the global.asax.* where * is either vb, cs, etc, a call to some method of System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingConfiguration... in the Application_Start event.
Now, I know this trick: to know if in the application virtual dir, the dll component is well declared, you would type in a web browser (in your case):

http://Remoteserver/VirtualDirectory...lass2.rem?wsdl

or

http://Remoteserver/VirtualDirectory/Class2.rem?wsdl

whichever is right in your case.

If you see the description in a wellformed xml output, with a lot of different colors you are close to be in this remoting business.This basically means that the <service></service> section with objectUri is well constructed. Also, there is a wizard for web.config files in VS.Net 2005 Beta, that I still haven't tried. If this wizard does remoting too, please reply with a few hints about it.

By the way, for most cases, it is better to use SingleCall.

Tonci Korsano "What you think doesn't matter. What matters is evidence!"