Messenger Service

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I have been asked to make a very simple messenger application to run on a local intranet.
Having not designed anything like this before my first thought is to work out the trigger for the recieving of messages.
All I can think of at present is sending a file to location on the hardDrive and getting a fileSystemWatcher to pick it up and trigger the event, surely there must be a better method than this, what are my options?

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Jax
 
You need to look up on Network communication.

The simplest and most versatile one is Socket. Look up on MSDN about
Sockets

You will need a server to which all clients connect to (If there are
multiple clients).

-vJ
 
I have been asked to make a very simple messenger application to run on a local intranet.
Having not designed anything like this before my first thought is to work out the trigger for the recieving of messages.
All I can think of at present is sending a file to location on the hardDrive and getting a fileSystemWatcher to pick it up and trigger the event, surely there must be a better method than this, what are my options?
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The Microsoft .NET QuickStarts have an example of a simple chat
application:

http://tinyurl.com/f21h
 
Jax,

I would look into using the RTC API through COM interop. It's basically
a way of accessing MSN messenger programattically. You don't necessarily
need to connect to MS's network, as you can provision it for yourself, or,
you could just establish PC-to-PC communications.

Hope this helps.


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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UhihaJax said:
I have been asked to make a very simple messenger application to run on a local intranet.
Having not designed anything like this before my first thought is to work
Click to expand...
out the trigger for the recieving of messages.
All I can think of at present is sending a file to location on the
Click to expand...
hardDrive and getting a fileSystemWatcher to pick it up and trigger the
event, surely there must be a better method than this, what are my options?
 
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