Communicate message between Clients and Server using DotNet

[sekarm]

Hi all,
Happy to see you all again, I am going to develop one client server
application using dotnet(vb.net or c#.net).The task is to develop two applications seperately. one application continuosly run on server that is watching clients application. than another application that is client application run on many systems. if any one open the client application in the client system the client connects to server and client gives some information to server, that is i am going to do task(i have to open notepad.exe), after that the server gives information to all connected clients that is new client is joined in its network then forward information to all clients it will do some work.
Please give valuable information for above task. i have no idea about this. which one is best socket or tcp,

Thanks in Advance,
Sekar.M

[darkmannofear]

Use Sockets is powerful but it will consume more coding at the begining i think, and sure try to do it asynchronous socket programming, but you should have a knowleadge about threads, you will not involved into thread or even thread managment but you have to understand it in order to know what to do if you face any problem. best regards :-)

[sekarm]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.can u show some code or link for socket programming.

Cheers,
....Sekar

[eflatunn]

I think you can use remoting if you won't have many clients.

[darkmannofear]

http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/csharp/cs_network/sockets/article.php/c8781/ this link have code samples and illustrations about Asynchronous Socket Programming, it might be helpful does this help?

[Frinavale]

Hi all,
Happy to see you all again, I am going to develop one client server
application using dotnet(vb.net or c#.net).The task is to develop two applications seperately. one application continuosly run on server that is watching clients application. than another application that is client application run on many systems. if any one open the client application in the client system the client connects to server and client gives some information to server, that is i am going to do task(i have to open notepad.exe), after that the server gives information to all connected clients that is new client is joined in its network then forward information to all clients it will do some work.
Please give valuable information for above task. i have no idea about this. which one is best socket or tcp,

Thanks in Advance,
Sekar.M

Hi Sekar,

I would recommend you do some research on Web Services.

A Web Service is a collection of classes and functions that can be called by a client application to do some things.

For instance when your application is loaded it could call a method hosted in a Web Service to submit some data to your server.

They are very powerful and .NET simplifies using them.
I strongly recommend googling .NET Web Services to find out more about them because I think they will help you in developing this system.

15 Seconds has provided great coverage of the topic.
CodeGuru also provides good coverage with examples on how to create and consume Web Services (scroll down past the advertisements)

Hope this helps.
Cheers!

-Frinny