C＃-将WCF用于本地网络客户端/服务器软件

Question

I'm working on this project where I have 7 PCs connected to a switch, one of them is the server.

The clients wont send/receive data between each other, they will only send some "characters/strings" to the server. Also, the server will send "characters/strings" to the clients. Also, I need to know on the server software if the clients are connected normally.

So I read that using WCF is the best way of doing this program. Also, I guess it can work normally using TcpClient in C#.

So what's the best way for dealing with such case? Any good tutorials or example that can be of help?

Thanks.

Answer 1

WCF is a good solution and allows an easy way for enrich the comunication in the future. You can host the service in any .net project (console application, web prohect, windows forms or wpf). Adding the reference via Visual Studio and use the proxy is straightful and you won't need the TcpClient (actually I don't think it would work).

Your needs seems to be very simple so I suggest you to take a look at the followind web cast: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032344313&culture=en-US The first is more than enough.