By Patrick Lam
The Server: The simple multi-threaded TCP/UDP Server v1 provides a TCP and
UDP servers running at separate threads. The sockets can receive
a text messages send frm the client machine, and return a confirmation
together with the received text back to the client. It uses the traditional
socket programming methods (socket/bind/listen/accept). In the v2 of this program, I will make use if the .Net library's TcpListener that will make things much easier.
The Client: The simple TCP/UDP Client v2 allows users to send a simple text message to
the server and get a confirm message from the server. Users can either use
TCP or UDP to send this message. The program uses the traditional socket
programming technique (socket/bind/connect/send). In v2 of this program, I
will make use of .Net library's TcpClient and UdpClient, that will make things
much easier.
To demo the program, the user has to run the server and the client on
separate machines. It he/she wants to run both server and client on the
same machine, the server's host name has to be the machine's host name.
That is, it can't be "localhost". If "localhost" is used, there will be a
socket
exception. I still can't figure out why yet.
All the other required information is provided at the beginning of
each file.
This post intends to be a beginner level of server/client socket programming
and multi-threading demo.
Download sampleTcpUdpServer1.cs
Download sampleTcpUdpClient1.cs
