.NET Remoting with Events in VB 2005 and .NET 2.0

I learned how to add events to a remote client by studying the “Chatter” remoting example in .NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET, by Paul Kimmell. I will not attempt to explain the entire “Chatter” code example, since a good explanation is already given in Kimmell’s article, but I do want to point out a few important aspects that weren’t clear to me at first.

.NET Remoting: The Simplest Remoting Example

I just read chapter 10, .NET remoting, in Introducing Microsoft .NET 3rd Edition, 2003, by David S. Platt. His explanations are very clear and easy to read, but I had a little trouble compiling and running the sample code. Part of the problem is that the code was written for an earlier version of Visual Studio and the .NET library. I took notes as I upgraded and built this example and I thought I’d share them here. I built this example in Visual Basic 2005 Express SP1. I have upload this project into my Box.net folder on this blog. Even if you don’t have David Platt’s book you can probably get a good idea about how remoting works by looking at my VB2005 version of his example code, reading the introduction below,  and reading the on-line articles listed at the end of the introduction.