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| Author | Forum: PowerTCP Sockets for .NET (Secure and Standard) Topic: Open a connection as host |
| tomsummers40 From: Kaysville, UT USA Posts: 3 Member Since: 11/26/10 |
posted May 20, 2014 2:32 PM I have a server application that runs Dart Sockets version 4.4.0.3. It runs a thread for each client that sends a message. To start the server it runs this code: Friend WithEvents Host As Dart.Sockets.Server Host.Start(AddressOf Host_NewConnection, New System.Net.IPEndPoint(ip, cd.ListenPort), m_SelectedProtocol) After that is run when it receives a message the Host_NewConnection Sub Procedure is run and the message is handled. My question is: instead of waiting for the client to send me a message I want to establish a connection with the client, leave it open, and then wait for messages to come in from the client. How can I do this? |
| Jason Farrar (Admin) From: Oneida, NY USA Posts: 223 Member Since: 07/24/07 Extra Support Options Custom Application Development |
posted May 29, 2015 12:28 PM If you just want to persist the connection you can call Tcp.ReadAsync instead of Tcp.Read in your Host_NewConnection sub procedure. Tcp.ReadAsync requires an async callback which will be executed when the receive completes, you would put your message handling logic in this callback instead of in Host_NewConnection. After your message handling code, you would call Tcp.ReadAsync again and pass in the same async call back. Reference the first VB example in the following link for more information: http://www.dart.com/help/ptsknet/Dart.Sockets~Dart.Sockets.Server.htm If you want to establish outgoing connections then you wouldn't use the server component. You would use a collection of TCP components and add to it as each connection to a client is established. In this scenario, the client is essentially acting as the server so you would need to call Tcp.Socket.Accept on the client-side in order for it to accept connections from the server. You would probably still want to use Tcp.ReceiveAsync on the server side though. I wouldn't really recommended doing this though, it will get complicated fairly quickly. |
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