Socket Connection from ASP.NET Page

[Dav Tan]

Here is the situation, we have a old server application using TCP/IP socket
communication. Right now, we need to build a ASP.NET web application to be
the front-end client to talk to the server application. A complete
communicate will happen back & forth between the ASP.net page and server
application several times. I think the issue here is state management. My
question is: is there a good way to do it? Or is there a kind of
architecture to do this?

BTW, I read one user's response to a similar question in the forum: " there
will be no difference between using tcp/ip socket in a window form and
calling from asp.net page". I think this is wrong, the big difference is
"State management".

Thanks,
DT

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That is correct. Unless you find a way to maintain the socket across Page
postbacks / callbacks, it would not work. I suppose you could try storing the
socket in Session, or making it a static public property in Global.
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"Dav Tan" wrote:

Here is the situation, we have a old server application using TCP/IP socket
communication. Right now, we need to build a ASP.NET web application to be
the front-end client to talk to the server application. A complete
communicate will happen back & forth between the ASP.net page and server
application several times. I think the issue here is state management. My
question is: is there a good way to do it? Or is there a kind of
architecture to do this?

BTW, I read one user's response to a similar question in the forum: " there
will be no difference between using tcp/ip socket in a window form and
calling from asp.net page". I think this is wrong, the big difference is
"State management".

Thanks,
DT