Re: Best way to auto-start Remoting host that is a Windows Forms app?

Thanks for the info.

Currently I am just trying using Process.Start to launch the host app from
the client app and putting in a short delay with a splash screen and it
works well. Very simple and clean. Eventually I'll do what you do in
wrapping it up into a client-side DLL for reuse and encapsulation.


"Daniel Moth" <dmoth74@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uCMYAeEZFHA.3620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I have not encountered any clean solution to that and I too prefer the COM
> autolaunching of out-of-proc servers.
>
> You could have a client-side dll that does the launching of the host
process
> etc. The requirement now is that the client "touches" the dll before going
> anywhere near to the exe (or to be precise, the dll hosted by the exe).
>
> In fact, I have thin proxy objects in my client side dll that simply
forward
> the calls to the corresponding remoted object and hence the client apps
> don't even know/reference the remoted dll - they do everything through the
> local dll and the out-of-proc business is transparent. There are other
> benefits to that like translating chatty calls to chunky, validating
> arguments in-proc etc.
>
> Cheers
> Daniel
> --
> http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/
>
>
> "None" <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23W599fAZFHA.2884@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I have a Windows Forms app. that acts as a Remoting host for my client
> >apps.
> > I don't really want to turn the host app into a Windows Service if I
don't
> > have to. What are my options for auto-launching the host app when a
> > client
> > needs it? (the host app already acts as a Singleton so only one
instance
> > will ever run)
> >
> > I see a couple of options, none very nice:
> >
> > 1) Have the client start the host application. The problem I see with
> > this is that I have to build in logic in the client to detect that the
> > host
> > is started and ready.
> >
> > 2) The host application also acts as an OPC server. The clients could
> > create an OPC connection to the server and Windows will launch the host.
> > The problem with this is some of my client apps don't really need the
OPC
> > functionality so this is kind of a hack.
> >
> > 3) Create a Windows Service that is nothing but a listener for Remoting
> > activation requests from the clients. The service will then launch the
> > host
> > app. Yuck.
> >
> > Please suggest other options! One nice thing about COM was that Windows
> > will launch out-of-process servers for you. I wish Microsoft had done
the
> > same thing for Remoting.
> >
> >
>


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