Hi Guys I am keen to experiment with the sockets feature of silverlight 2. Normally I'd set up a console app on server to act as a listener. Obviously I can't do this wit a hosted server. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can acheive this or is it impossible at this stage? Thanks
As I see it you have two options: 1) Use your DASP account web servers / web pages by designing your Silverlight client socket code to make requests to retrieve HTTP web pages you have hosted. Doing this will prove some of your Silverlight socket proof of concept code, but obviously if your application is more complex than this, you will need a specialised socket server and you can do this: 2) Implement your specialised socket server and host it yourself locally. Write your Silverlight socket client to connect to your local machine..doing this will also allow you to easily debug both your socket server and your Silverlight client socket applications. You will probably need admin access to firewall configuration to enable this work..
To follow up on my original post (24/04) I've developed my own Silverlight 2 proof of concept socket application. Please see this thread for further information: http://community.discountasp.net/showthread.php?p=30842#post30842
