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Communications between different .NET Applications

Hello,

I am moving into territory that is unknown to me so I thought I
would request sage council from those who knew about such topics.

My desire is to have client versions of my application running on a couple
of computers on my LAN and then a server application that helps those client
instances process the database efficiently.
For example if one user sends a message to the other the following should
occur:

a) The Database is written to by the client application (this is already
done)
b) The client program sends a message to the server instance of the software
explaining that a message has been sent from user A to user B (for example)
c) The server program looks for instance of the application running on the
LAN and sees if any are logged in as user B.
d) If the user is found then that client instance of the software is told to
re-select it's message data from the database.

I realise I could just use a timer to re-select the data every x seconds but
I don't see this as efficient.
I figure I could also do all of this via web services.

As i'm moving into larger application structure these days I was wondering
if anyone could point out the best of these solutions or any ideas that I
have not considered and point towards the relevant .NET objects I should be
using to accomplish this.

I hope you can help and if you do, many thanks.

Kind Regards

Jax
Nov 16 '05 #1
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Thanks for the responses Greg and Nick.

Sounds like remoting is the way forward.
Does anyone know of any decent on-line articles I can check out on the
subject?
Has Jon Skeet written any? That'd be dope as his articles are very easy to
understand and are generally good fun.

"Simon Tammaru" <i_************************@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in
message news:cL***************@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
Hello,

I am moving into territory that is unknown to me so I thought I would request sage council from those who knew about such topics.

My desire is to have client versions of my application running on a couple
of computers on my LAN and then a server application that helps those client instances process the database efficiently.
For example if one user sends a message to the other the following should
occur:

a) The Database is written to by the client application (this is already
done)
b) The client program sends a message to the server instance of the software explaining that a message has been sent from user A to user B (for example) c) The server program looks for instance of the application running on the
LAN and sees if any are logged in as user B.
d) If the user is found then that client instance of the software is told to re-select it's message data from the database.

I realise I could just use a timer to re-select the data every x seconds but I don't see this as efficient.
I figure I could also do all of this via web services.

As i'm moving into larger application structure these days I was wondering
if anyone could point out the best of these solutions or any ideas that I
have not considered and point towards the relevant .NET objects I should be using to accomplish this.

I hope you can help and if you do, many thanks.

Kind Regards

Jax

Nov 16 '05 #2
http://www.codeproject.com/
http://csharp-home.com
http://www.csharphelp.com/
http://www.gotdotnet.com/

And tons more, just search in the Google.

If I think of anything else (decent), I'll let you know.

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:03:52 GMT, Uchiha Jax
<i_************************@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the responses Greg and Nick.

Sounds like remoting is the way forward.
Does anyone know of any decent on-line articles I can check out on the
subject?
Has Jon Skeet written any? That'd be dope as his articles are very easy
to
understand and are generally good fun.

"Simon Tammaru" <i_************************@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in
message news:cL***************@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...
Hello,

I am moving into territory that is unknown to me so I
thought

I
would request sage council from those who knew about such topics.

My desire is to have client versions of my application running on a
couple
of computers on my LAN and then a server application that helps those

client
instances process the database efficiently.
For example if one user sends a message to the other the following
should
occur:

a) The Database is written to by the client application (this is already
done)
b) The client program sends a message to the server instance of the

software
explaining that a message has been sent from user A to user B (for

example)
c) The server program looks for instance of the application running on
the
LAN and sees if any are logged in as user B.
d) If the user is found then that client instance of the software is
told

to
re-select it's message data from the database.

I realise I could just use a timer to re-select the data every x seconds

but
I don't see this as efficient.
I figure I could also do all of this via web services.

As i'm moving into larger application structure these days I was
wondering
if anyone could point out the best of these solutions or any ideas that
I
have not considered and point towards the relevant .NET objects I should

be
using to accomplish this.

I hope you can help and if you do, many thanks.

Kind Regards

Jax



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Regards,
Nurchi BECHED
Nov 16 '05 #3
Uchiha Jax <i_************************@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the responses Greg and Nick.

Sounds like remoting is the way forward.
Does anyone know of any decent on-line articles I can check out on the
subject?
Has Jon Skeet written any? That'd be dope as his articles are very easy to
understand and are generally good fun.


Thanks for saying so :)

I haven't written any articles on remoting or web services - indeed, I
haven't done much remoting yet myself. However, my new job relies
heavily on remoting, so I'm sure I'll be getting a lot of practice with
it. When I know what I'm talking about, I'll see about writing an
article - just don't expect it in the very near future!

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too
Nov 16 '05 #4

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