Silverlight TV 70: Sockets Unplugged
- Posted: Apr 28, 2011 at 9:00 AM
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Ever wonder how to use sockets or what they're good for? In this video, Peter Smith of the Silverlight networking team joins John to discuss these topics and demonstrate how sockets work by using them to play an "I Spy"-like game that Peter created. The game results and scores are updated instantly on two client PCs, and after Peter and John play, Peter jumps into the code and shows how the socket service works on both the client and the server.
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Cool. Is this how it'll work on WP7?
Excellent show.
Same question, is the entire SL4 sockets stack being moved to Mango?
AS far as Windows Phone goes -- the current 7.0 phone doesn't include sockets, so this won't work on the current phone. I've seen the same Mix meeting as anyone else about the "mango" socket support, but I haven't yet tried to move the game over to the Phone.
It would certainly involve some rework -- in particular, the screen layout would need some radical changes, and I've have to make sure that the touch stuff was handled well.
Peter, but do you know if the same socket structure from SL4 has been ported to Mango?
Secondly, what you showed, was it based on SL4 or SL5?
Thanks!
Keep in mind that I haven't seen the API yet --- but one of the overriding goals of .NET is to not splinter the API. That means that Silverlight browser .NET sockets have the same API as desktop .NET sockets (except for the synchronous stuff).
What I showed is the regular shipping Silverligt. What's running right now in my browser is a version 4. Sockets have been part of Silverlight for a while now.
@Peter Smith: Thanks Pete! You & John had great points;
Hope to see you again when Mango is released. I'm very interested in sockets on WP7/Mobile as a portable device to share live info.
Nice demo, keep up the good work!
Would it be possible to share the code?
Thanks
Angelo
Yes, the source code's in a zip file in the System.Net blog -- just follow the links.
Must remember to read carefully!! :)
Thanks for your time.
Angelo
Dang, the code is so blurry it looks Sanskrit circa 1967 San Francisco.
Very informative show. Thank you.
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