Why not just transfer the file over, save it to disk and do and assembly.Load()? You could use remoting for transferring the file. And no web server / web-server channel is required for this.
Deepak > -----Original Message----- > From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Ingo Rammer > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Serializing an assembly > > Hi Lorin, > > even if this is a somewhat weird approach, you could do the following: > > First, look in the framework SDK: there's a WebServer-Channel sink for > Remoting at [1]. You can embed this to "simulate" a web server with a .NET > Remoting server. > > Then you can use > Assembly.LoadFrom("http://your.Remoting.Server/SomeDirectory/YourAssembl y. > dl > l") at the client side to dynamically download the assembly. [it will > however run in a untrusted security context]. > > WARNING: This web server channel sink is an unsupported sample and might > pose one or another security problem. But it should get you started ;-) > > (And of course, you could also publish the DLL with any http server, like > IIS and such. But you asked if it's possible with Remoting ;-)) > > just some ideas again, > -Ingo > > [1] X:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual > Studio.NET\FrameworkSDK\Samples\Technologies\Remoting\Advanced\ChannelSi nk > s\ > WebServer > > Author of "Advanced .NET Remoting" > http://www.dotnetremoting.cc > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lorin Hochstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:06 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [DOTNET] Serializing an assembly > > > > > > Is it possible to serialize an assembly and transfer it to > > another process > > on another machine (say, via remoting calls)? I've looked and > > looked, but > > haven't found any references to such a thing. > > > > I'm working on a mobile agent project for a course, using > > .NET. So far, > > we've been moving the assemblies from one machine to another > > by copying the > > DLL, and then serializing the agent object and transferring > > it to the other > > machine via remoting calls. > > > > It seems cleaner if there was some way to transmit the > > assembly without > > doing a file transfer (serializing the agent object is still necessary > > because we need to maintain state). Is it even possible to transmit an > > assembly from one process to another without copying a DLL? > > > > Lorin > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe > > from DOTNET, or > > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > > > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
