.NET Remoting

[PulkitZery]

Hi I am stuck in a problem. I have developed an application, which has two buttons start and stop. All I want to do is to be able to push these Start and Stop buttons from a remote location (within the network). I know there is something available in .net library called .Net Remoting, but I dont know how to use it. Can anyone help me how can i do this. Thanks in advance.

Pulkit Zery

[TRScheel]

Hi I am stuck in a problem. I have developed an application, which has two buttons start and stop. All I want to do is to be able to push these Start and Stop buttons from a remote location (within the network). I know there is something available in .net library called .Net Remoting, but I dont know how to use it. Can anyone help me how can i do this. Thanks in advance.

Pulkit Zery

From what I understand of System.Runtime.Remoting, it isn't what you want to use for this particular application. I would think you would need the application to accept incoming messages on a port and then do something based off the message. In this case, press start/stop. System.Net.Sockets might be more what you are looking for, although I am sure you can use the other classes / namespaces within System.Net to do the same thing.

[PulkitZery]

I would think you would need the application to accept incoming messages on a port and then do something based off the message. In this case, press start/stop. System.Net.Sockets might be more what you are looking for, although I am sure you can use the other classes / namespaces within System.Net to do the same thing.

Thanks for your reply, what you suggested is exactly what i want to do. I have these following questions:
How do you open a port and send messages?
Do I need to run the main application as service or something?
How do the client and the main application will communicate?

If you can give me some code examples that would be excellent. Thanks in advance for your help.

Pulkit Zery

[TRScheel]

Thanks for your reply, what you suggested is exactly what i want to do. I have these following questions:
How do you open a port and send messages?
Do I need to run the main application as service or something?
How do the client and the main application will communicate?

If you can give me some code examples that would be excellent. Thanks in advance for your help.

Pulkit Zery

If I get some free time later today I can throw some sample code down for you, but I can describe the process fairly quickly.

What you will do is have a program that actively listens for information on a port. Once it recieves information from that port, it deciphers it and attempts to make a decision about what to do with it. The program does not need to run as a service, but it will need to be allowed through the firewall. Communication is done over TCP or UDP, although you will probably use TCP.


Also, here is the MSDN information about it, it should hopefully describe the process. I will check back on this thread in about an hour and a half or two, if you still have questions.

MDSN - TCPClient

MSDN - TCPListener

[TRScheel]

Also, know that this is not the ONLY way you can go about it. I just prefer Sockets. I am sure you can do it with HTTPListener or other classes.