C# server-side socket sender?

Question

I'm trying to muddle my way through setting up a server with a socket port, but I can't find any good references/examples for my situation.

Pretty much all server-side examples go:

• Listen for socket to connect
• Receive msg from client
• Reply to client
• End communications

What I want to do is:

• Listen for socket to connect
• Begin sending data intermittently (as data updates arrive)
• Continue until the connection is broken

I'm considering taking the standard example , simply skipping the receive, then setting up to repeatedly send (based on receiving events inside the server), but I don't have high confidence in that and I'd like to know what the standard approach to this problem is.

Also, if I want to have multiple ports open do I have to manually assign IP ports, or can than be done automagically?

Answer 1

You can find one of the libraries here . There are some samples in demo project and I think CustomWireProtocol is a sample project that can solve your problem. You can change the client code to send continious messages to server.

Answer 2

I'd recommend looking into Nanomsg by the author of ZeroMQ . Here's an example from a .NET binding project on github:

https://github.com/mhowlett/NNanomsg/blob/master/Example/Program.cs