--- title: "Remoting Life Saver" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/3/15/remoting-life-saver.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/3/15/remoting-life-saver.html" published: "2003-03-15T16:46:00" updated: "2003-03-15T16:46:00" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Ive run in to trouble with my .Config file exposing types that were written with typos and such. The remoting framework will not tell you it could not load the file, unless you explicitly tell it to: just before closing…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Remoting Life Saver By Roy Osherove March 15, 2003 **Historical article** · Originally published March 15, 2003; technical details may be outdated. Ive run in to trouble with my .Config file exposing types that were written with typos and such. The remoting framework **will not tell you** it could not load the file, unless you explicitly tell it to: just before closing the "system.runtime.remoting" xml node, add this node: **** now you'll get an exception the next time the remoting service could not expose your type for whatever reason... --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/