LAN Chating

[Guest]

HI folks,

So, I have a small netowork at my home, and would be usefull if I had a
INstant Messenger, but that just works on LANs, something like "net send"
command used to be, however it could send messages to any computer.

I've been searching about it, but I do know where to start!, i say using
messaging, net.sockets, but I do not Know which is the best for this occasion.

Any comments would be very helpful,

Thanks in advance

 

[One Handed Man \( OHM - Terry Burns \)]

Download the SDK for RTC ( real time communications ) see this lab I wrote
for a VideoPhone, this will give you a few pointers to start with.

http://www.learn247.net/werock247/labs/rtc/vb/index.htm

HTH



--

OHM ( Terry Burns )
. . . One-Handed-Man . . .
If U Need My Email ,Ask Me

Time flies when you don't know what you're doing

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/08/AdvancedBasics/default.aspx

Ken
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HI folks,

So, I have a small netowork at my home, and would be usefull if I had a
INstant Messenger, but that just works on LANs, something like "net send"
command used to be, however it could send messages to any computer.

I've been searching about it, but I do know where to start!, i say using
messaging, net.sockets, but I do not Know which is the best for this
occasion.

Any comments would be very helpful,

Thanks in advance

 

[rawCoder]

Sorry to deviate from main thread...

The AdvancedBasics article here showing P2P Comm Using Web Services uses
Poll Method as specified by the author.
< From article>
"That's sort of what I'm trying to accomplish here using Web services over
HTTP. A client connects, sends a request, gets a response, and the
connection is closed by the server. For a client to get an event
notification from a server using HTTP has always required polling on the
part of the client, and that is exactly what my sample app does."
</From Article>

My question is that Polling doesn't seem that decent solution. Are there
other possibilities to tackle this? I have heard about WS Eventing but can't
find some concrete info about it. Actually I myself might be needing to
implement a Publish Subscribe model ( a little like chat server but with lot
more fucntionality ) and I am reluctant for WebServices due to lack of this
kind of feature, Socket has its own problems, Remoting is quite notorious.
So I am a bit puzzled.


The question is the same though. What things are available instead of
Polling for Asynchronous Server to Client communication ?


Any help and idea is most appreciated.
Thank You
rawCoder

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Have you looked at web service enhancements 2.0
http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/wse/WhatsNew/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservic...library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-eventing.asp

Ken
-------------------------
Sorry to deviate from main thread...

The AdvancedBasics article here showing P2P Comm Using Web Services uses
Poll Method as specified by the author.
< From article>
"That's sort of what I'm trying to accomplish here using Web services over
HTTP. A client connects, sends a request, gets a response, and the
connection is closed by the server. For a client to get an event
notification from a server using HTTP has always required polling on the
part of the client, and that is exactly what my sample app does."
</From Article>

My question is that Polling doesn't seem that decent solution. Are there
other possibilities to tackle this? I have heard about WS Eventing but can't
find some concrete info about it. Actually I myself might be needing to
implement a Publish Subscribe model ( a little like chat server but with lot
more fucntionality ) and I am reluctant for WebServices due to lack of this
kind of feature, Socket has its own problems, Remoting is quite notorious.
So I am a bit puzzled.


The question is the same though. What things are available instead of
Polling for Asynchronous Server to Client communication ?


Any help and idea is most appreciated.
Thank You
rawCoder

 

[rawCoder]

Hi,

Well my idea was that WS-Eventing isnt included in the WSE2 - atleast not on
the WhatsNew page that you sent.
Also, reading between the lines, I got the impressions that WS-Eventing is
in some Beta or some Infancy phase.

Someone can confirm the status of the WS-Eventing though.

Thank You
rawCoder