APress is a relatively new publishing house that is building a reputation much like it's famous co-founder, Dan Appleman: high tech, innovative, and completely independent. Advanced .NET Remoting in VB .NET is a great example of that theme because they've discovered that VB.NET's role as the logical successor to DCOM has been overlooked by most authors. The book first goes through in-depth coverage of the .NET Remoting Framework in VB.NET. Then the book gets technical in part two. Seriously!

APress has built their business on being able to go far beyond the information you can ordinarily get from Microsoft and other sources. This is a great example because it's the first book (but not the last) into print about this important topic. Rammer also starts where the .NET Framework documentation stops. Some examples of the kind of information you can find here includes how the .NET Framework really uses message sinks and sink providers, why and how to implement message and channel sinks, and detailed insight into the synchronous and asynchronous messages.

Don't expect this book to be an easy, quick read. Do expect it to be the best information on the subject that you can find anywhere.

About the Authors

Ingo Rammer is a consultant, trainer, and software architect rather than a professional author. He's based in Austria and has very impressive credentials in high tech software development, even though he admits that he actually liked Visual Basic 6.0 before VB.NET came along. Rammer says he was doing remote applications using XML and HTTP before SOAP was even a dirty thought in Microsoft headquarters.