Question

I haven’t worked much with remoting so excuse this rather rudimentary question, If I derive a class from an abstract class marked as [Serializable] (for passing the data across an appdomain), does the other side get the actual overriden implementation? ie does polymorphism work over remoting/Serializable?

I need to create a clone on the other side rather than operating on the original so MarshalByRef is not an option…

Answer 1

Yes when you deserialize a type, the same type is reconstituted in the remote domain.

You can control the deserialized type by using the IObjectReference pattern:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.iobjectreference.aspx