Network Discovery

[Guest]

I have an application that may be installed and ran on more than one machine
at a time. How can I have my application browse the network to see if others
are running (so that they can divide up the load and not step on each other's
toes).

I would like to be able to get the machine name and the instance number (a
number I assign at runtime).


Thanks,
Mark

 

[Phil G.]

I did a similar thing and used a windows service to host a .net remoting
server. You create a 'listening' port and send info. back to the designated
host.

This is one way. I'm sure there are a few more!

Rgds, Phil