Asynchronous Sockets Class with events

Question

I am new to C# and I need to build a few different apps of the next few months that communicate via socket communication. I have done this with VB in the past and I need to do something similar with C#. I have taken a stab at this myself and I can't seem to get it working. Working with the UI thread and a worker thread and passing data from one to the other has got me frustrated. I wonder if someone has built a class that has the events that I can use to grab the data on the UI thread and display it etc that they are willing to share. I have looked at a lot of examples and tried lots of things but I can't seem to get it working.

Any suggestions or help would be great.

Darby

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Sorry about my previous reply; I deleted it. I got this confused with something else. Note that the subject of a thread can be critical. The subject here is Asynchronous Sockets Class with events so it is less likely that members will look at it. You said  use the socket.beginConnect method and then update the UI . That is a UI question. To the extent that it is not a UI question you are asking very much in this one thread. Try asking more specific questions in each thread. You are welcome to try other forums but you will get better help anywhere you go if you are more specific.

Darby Nelson · Answer

I guess I need to try a different forum. Not much activity here.

Darby Nelson · Answer

I am using windows forms. It seems to me that this is a question about multi-threading/asynchronous programming not really UI. UI happens to be one of the threads in my case but it is really about passing info from one thread to another. I am trying to use the socket.beginConnect method and then update the UI when the connect callback comes back. I am very green and would love to see an example of this implemented. I have read many articles and tried many approaches and so far I have been unsuccessful. There is an example that is doing basically just what I want that I downloaded ( http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/thmok/Peer2PeerChatAsynchSocket11222005235425PM/Peer2PeerChatAsynchSocket.aspx ) that does essentially what I am looking for but just like my attempts it doesn't work.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

For UI questions it really helps to post the question in the forum for the UI. Mebers have a tendency to lump evedrything in the C# Language forum but that is not what should be done. Note that you have not specified whether you are using Windows Forms or WPF. The BackgroundWorker class is designed to do what you are asking about. Have you tried it?