Something that bothers me a little

.Net remoting is officially discouraged now, right? So, we’re all supposed to just quit that and go to web services because they are the standard. Who cares about ‘performance’ and ‘TCP channels’, because we’re trying to write services that inter-operate with the world… So, why does Microsoft still use TCP/proprietary remoting to connect to SQL Server? This surely should be the ONE place they’d like to make a good example for everyone to follow… right? Huh. Well, I don’t like it. I’m calling foobar on them. I’d be willing to bet my lunch money that the reason they haven’t switched is for performance, and to FORCE platform dependence. What if I just want that performance? What if I WANT people to have to use my client to talk to my server? Is that possible?