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The Win32 Windows Sockets library (Winsock) provides mechanisms to improve the performance of programs that use sockets, and the Microsoft .NET Framework provides a layer over Winsock so that managed applications can communicate over sockets. To use all these layers to write a truly high-performance socket-based application requires a little background information, as Daryn Kiely explains here.

.NET remoting allows the development of distriubuted applications. It allows applications to use objects contained in other processes. We wil quickly look at the basics on how to set up a simple .NET remoting system.