How to send data to peers over the net

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Rotsey

Hi,

I am writing a game that I want to net enable.

So I want to be able to connect to peers over the internet. I will
be sending very small packets of data.

What is the best way to do this?

Do I need a middle man server?

Can someone outline how to do it please?

rotsey
 
Hi,

I am writing a game that I want to net enable.

So I want to be able to connect to peers over the internet. I will
be sending very small packets of data.

What is the best way to do this?

Do I need a middle man server?

Can someone outline how to do it please?

rotsey
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Depending on exactly what you are doing, you should be able to just
use TcpSockets to communicate between each other. I believe either the
VS Help or MSDN has some lengthy examples on this, so you might start
your research there.

The other option (as you suggested) is to use a "middle-man" server
that you both connect to. Doing this would allow you several options
such as an ASP.Net XML Web Service - but it would require you to have
an extra server.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe
 
Thanks Seth

With web services you can't send a peer a message without a request,
is that right?

So you have to loop in your client and keep requesting until the data is
returned???
 
Thanks Seth

With web services you can't send a peer a message without a request,
is that right?

So you have to loop in your client and keep requesting until the data is
returned???
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Pretty much. Your best bet is probably to just go with the TcpSockets
approach - then you just configure a listener to grab any message. If
you need a high-performance option you could use the multiplayer part
of DirectX (can't remember it's name) - but it will be much harder to
configure and most examples will be in C++

Thanks,

Seth Rowe
 
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