Question

I need a way to trigger events on remote processes ‘over the wire’ and pass parameters (xml serialization, whatever). I want to be able to do things like this.

foreach(childClient c in clientList) {     MyEvent += c.EventHandler; }  MyEvent('param'); 

what technologies are good for this? WCF?

This is a small deployment in house software project so minimal overhead in design is a plus, doesn’t have to be ‘fast’ and won’t handle large amounts of traffic.

Answer 1

There are a number of ways of doing this, but WCF is the best match for .NET code. If you are in-house then hopefully firewalls, etc aren’t too much of a concern, and you can use the NET.TCP bindings which are full duplex. You want to read up on callback contracts.

There are a number of examples out there, such as this one.