Can I use web service to host my classes?

[wild_bill]

My company uses a set of classes for every data access function. The bad part is distributing these dlls with every project that accesses a database. Is there a way to reference these classes in a web service, then have all the applications reference the web service to access the classes?
Here's what I'm trying to do:

Dim WebServ1 as New WebService1
Dim myClass1 as New WebServ1.MyClass1
Dim myClass2 as New WebServ1.MyClass2

Edit: I found this http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...SecNetHT15.asp
Is remoting my only option?