This book takes developers beyond the basics with .NET to show how to use .NET technologies to build scalable, distributed applications. Experienced .NET developer Matthew MacDonald provides in-depth details about best practices for application design and architecture with .NET. The book begins with several focused chapters that discuss the building blocks of .NET distributed application development key technologies such as XML Web services, .NET Remoting, and multithreaded programming. Then the author reveals architecture best practices for exploiting these technologies to their fullest. Along the way, he provides expert tips about techniques such as state, concurrency, and serialization that might trip up developers who create their first distributed application. He also provides practical, ready-to-run applications to illustrate these best development practices complete with working code samples.