Remoting IpcChannel with Custom ACL Sample

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This topic is specific to a legacy technology that is retained for backward compatibility with existing applications and is not recommended for new development. Distributed applications should now be developed using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

This sample shows how to set a custom Access Control List (ACL) on the IpcChannel in .NET Framework remoting to limit access to the channel to specific users.

To build the sample using the command prompt

  1. Open a command prompt and, depending on your choice of programming language, navigate to the appropriate language specific subdirectory.

  2. Type msbuild.exe IpcWithAcl.sln at the command line.

To build the sample using Visual Studio

  1. Open Windows Explorer and, depending on your choice of programming language, navigate to the appropriate language specific subdirectory.

  2. Double-click the icon for IpcWithAcl.sln to open the file in Visual Studio.

  3. On the Build menu, click Build Solution.

  4. The Client and Server applications will be built in the default \bin or \bin\Debug directories.

To run the sample

  1. Navigate to the directory containing the new executable for Server, using the command prompt.

  2. Type Server.exe at the command line.

  3. Navigate to the directory containing the new executable for Client, using the command prompt.

  4. Type Client.exe at the command line.