Sockets and Messages (and communication with GUI)

[abcfantasy]

I have a class (named Server) to handle multiple client connections, receive and send messages and so on.

What I wish to do is the following:

I have a method in that class which is called whenever a message is received from a client. In this method, I want some way to communicate to the Form class, and write that message on a textbox.

Just for the information, from my Form class, I create a Server object, then just call a method AcceptConnections which will create the listening port, accept client connections and start to receive messages.

I'm wondering if this is simple as it sounds, and maybe I'm thinking in a too 'complex' way. I tried using delegates but had problems with Cross threading. And I can't directly access the textbox, since I do not have a reference to the instance of the Form.

Any help is greatly appreciated
Thank you in advance
Andrew

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http://www.abcfantasy.tk

 

[JurkMonkey]

3 things:

1. You may want to consider Remoting rather than raw sockets - depending if you want to connect to your server using other languages or not.

2. Don't just call your delegates directly from the listening thread. Instead invoke the delegates.

3. Create a Model-View-Controller. Your data (model) should know absolutely nothing about your form (view). Instead your data should tell the controller that it has received something and the controller should tell your form via the observer pattern or something similar.

For a few examples, you can go to the msdn.microsoft.com website and search for 101 C# samples. Give it a download and look in the advanced networking folder.

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[abcfantasy]

Thanks alot!

After some research here and there, I finally got it to work!

It was interesting learning about this.
Thanks again!
Andrew.

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http://www.abcfantasy.tk