我如何使用WCF服务而不是套接字客户端服务器应用程序？

Question

im wondering about how to use WCF service instead of sockets .. to send commands .. someone told me its more powerful than creating a client-server application my application about

send/receive Commands

chat

file transfer in my application i have to create at least two sockets on two ports .. one for (chat/commands) and one for fileTransfer ..

 //this function runs in its own thread private void Job(object o) { Socket client = (Socket)o; NetworkStream stream = new NetworkStream(client); StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(stream); try { string cmd = null; while ((cmd = sr.ReadLine()) != null) { Console.WriteLine(cmd); string[] command = cmd.Split('<'); switch (command[0]) { case "root": fmc.root(); break; case "explore": fmc.Explore(command[1]); break; case "new_folder": fmc.NewFolder(command[1]); break; case "hidden": fmc.HiddenChecked(command[1]); break; case "delete": fmc.Delete(command[1]); break; case "properties": if (command[1] == "single") { fmc.SingleProperties(command[2]); } else if (command[1] == "multi") { fmc.MultiProperties(command[2]); } else { fmc.DriveProperties(command[2]); } break; case "pastefromcopy": fmc.PasteFromCopy(command[1], command[2]); break; //case "confirm": // break; default: Console.WriteLine(cmd); break; } } } catch { client.Close(); stream.Dispose(); sr.Dispose(); } } 

so do you have any tutorial that would be close to my application.. to execute commands .. or if you can write me a simple client-server WCF .. that solve it the same way . thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

there are really so many articles out on the web for making a chat service using wcf. It really depends on the level of what you want to make and how much you would like to learn. I recommend you to go through a few of these videos here first to get the feel for wcf.

Then look through these to find an example of what you would like to create.

• ASP-Net-chatting-using-WCF-Services-and-JSon
• Chat-Application-in-ASP-NET-Using-AJAX-Pop-up-Wind
• WCF-WPF-Chat-Application
• A-WCF-WPF-Chat-Application
• WCF-Chat-Application.htm
• Microsoft's WCF Chat Sample

Have fun creating your service.

Answer 2

The following link would be a good starting point. It details how to write a client server chat application in WCF.