.NET remoting

Hey Guys,

Please does someone here have any experiences with the .NET remoting technology? I'm currently building the .NET plugin, which will allow users of our company application to run certain tasks like printing or system fragmentation at the remote system. I decided to use .NET remoting technology, because Microsoft .NET offers me an opportunity to write managed code (thank god for this present from Microsoft!..:-) and most off all because of the fact that .NET remoting has already implemented TCP/IP communication protocol. Please is someone here willing to share his experiences with me? Especially I would like to know, if it's good idea to use singleton objects at the server side with regard the fact that the client will need to determinde if the server is running or not, before an own communication. At the MSDN I read that isAlive rutine is easiest to implement via objects raised by client. But in my point of view it is possible to implement this via singletons as well, because if it's an remote node unavailable an RemoteException is being raised. What do you thing?

thanks and I hope you all survived the first days in work after the new year...:-)

Best wishes

JCD