What is the .NET standard for remote method invocation?

Question

Scenario:

• A common assembly defines domain object types (an assembly that is referenced by both client and server assemblies)
• A

Answer 1

It might be overkill, but it's the remoting method I'm most familiar with, and seems to be the current .NET platform standard: Windows Communication Framework (WCF).

Here are a few references:

MSDN library articles on WCF

WCF Developer's Primer from CODE Magazine

A quick summary primer of what's covered in the other two

Answer 2

Well, you may use .NET Remoting, but that is officially deprecated, you should really go for WCF.

Edit: WCF does not share an assembly, instead it shares an XML contract that both client and server uses to generate parsers for specified types and methods.