Is MarshalByRefObject special?

Question

.NET has a thing called remoting where you can pass objects around between separate appdomains or even physical machines. I don\'t fully understand how the magic is done, he

Answer 1

The magic seems to be in a special TransparentProxy class - the .NET Runtime handles it in a special way.

• If you want to use it, see an article about RealProxy
• If you want to read more about the "magic", see an article on TransparentProxy implementation.
• For a basic overview, try the MSDN article "Remoting: A Technical Overview".

I think that MarshalByRefObject may contain some additional internal information which can be helpful for this mechanism, but I haven't looked much into that.