How do I pass references as method parameters across AppDomains?

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Published on 2010-05-28T20:40:00Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 20:41 UTC
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I have been trying to get the following code to work(everything is defined in the same assembly) :

namespace SomeApp{

public class A : MarshalByRefObject
{
   public byte[] GetSomeData() { // }
}

public class B : MarshalByRefObject
{
   private A remoteObj;

   public void SetA(A remoteObj)
   {
      this.remoteObj = remoteObj;
   }
}

public class C
{
   A someA = new A();
   public void Init()
   {
       AppDomain domain = AppDomain.CreateDomain("ChildDomain");
       string currentAssemblyPath = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
       B remoteB = domain.domain.CreateInstanceFromAndUnwrap(currentAssemblyPath,"SomeApp.B") as B;
       remoteB.SetA(someA); // this throws an ArgumentException "Object type cannot be converted to target type."
   }
}

}

What I'm trying to do is pass a reference of an 'A' instance created in the first AppDomain to the child domain and have the child domain execute a method on the first domain. In some point on 'B' code I'm going to call 'remoteObj.GetSomeData()'. This has to be done because the 'byte[]' from 'GetSomeData' method must be 'calculated' on the first appdomain. What should I do to avoid the exception, or what can I do to achieve the same result?

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