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Bringing DCOM remoting functionality to Windows CE and .NET CF2.0

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17 Apr 2006CPOL14 min read 96.9K   513   40  
This article shows how to use DCOM on Windows CE 5.0. We will add full DCOM rich error information, and implement a DCOM interface between a Windows XP .NET 2.0 client and Windows CE DCOM server. With this code, it is possible to code .NET remoting alike functionality through DCOM interop.
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