broadcasting a string of ASCII characters to networked connections

Question

Hi I need to broadcast a string of ascii characters to several wall mounted tickers in our office (scrolling red led types) to update the message on them. We also have a second office with some as well and i would ideally like to be able to send the string to these as well. I know what i need to send in terms of ASCII input to the boards but im not sure how best to send the information. I have seen sockets and UDP client used in examples and im slightly confused. any advice gratefully received. Thanks Myles

Brandon Lewis · Answer

If I remember correctly you will need to convert the string of ASCII characters into byte format using something like Encoding .ASCII.GetBytes(dataString); and then you can send them via Udp. With Udp you will need to give a host name and port to use or an IP endpoint and you will need to have something on the tickers listening for incoming data then these applications on the tickers will take the data and update their respective statistics.