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Figure 17-9.

Processes, application domains, and context boundaries

Context-Agile and Context-Bound Types

.NET types that do not demand any special contextual treatment are termed context-agile objects.

These objects can be accessed from anywhere within the hosting AppDomain without interfering

with the object’s runtime requirements. Building context-agile objects is a no-brainer, given that

you simply do nothing (specifically, you do not adorn the type with any contextual attributes and

do not derive from the System.ContextBoundObject base class):