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DCOM recommended

DCOM recommended
Technically DCOM application is network protocol that can provide interprocess communication for
the same computer or two different computers. There are different approaches to make such
application. One of them that is considered in this article is very convenient for making two
finished programs to communicate by adding DCOM specific software as a wrapper around not DCOM
classes.

This book provides very good explanation for special type DCOM applications when you need to connect two completed programs in a simplest way possible. Imagine that you have complicated database application running on one computer in LAN on the background. And you want GUI client communicate to it over DCOM protocol. See if this solution is what you need. It is written based on examples from Dale Rogerson's book.