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[define-private-public]

Hi TIGSource Forums (first post here).  For the bast two to three months I've been working tutorial series about C#'s System.Net namespace.  This was born out of my frustration when I was looking for some other tutorials about Socket programming in C#.  I've been posting them regularly to /r/csharp and periodically to /r/gamedev.  I'm still working on the series, so if you have any suggestions, questions, or requests, I'm all ears.

Instead of only giving you small examples, I also try to build up bigger projects.  Most of it is done in the command line interface, but a few times I'm willing to break out of that and use MonoGame/XNA.  I've tried to structure it in a way where you can read them any which-way, but I do recommend digesting them in order.  All of these examples/samples should be cross platform too (I work on Linux primarily).  All of the sample code falls under the Unlicense.

Here is the link to them: https://16bpp.net/tutorials/csharp-networking/

Main Tutorials:

• Preface
• 01. HttpClient - Grabbing web pages and other content
• 02. HttpListener - How to setup a micro web app in your application
• 03. TCP Chat - Making a chat server & client(s) using TCP sockets
• 04. TCP Games - Create an asynchronous & multi-threaded server for text based games
• 05. Compression - A short talk about how to use DeflateStream and determining if it makes sense to for your app
• 06. UDP File Transfer - Dipping our toes into UDP by sending files
• 07. UDP Pong - The classic Atari game, but runs over the internet
• 08. Ping - A utility to see how long messages take send & receive
• 09. Socket Class Intro - Porting a C application over to C# using the Socket class

Micro Tutorials:

• DNS - Resolving names into numbers
• IPAddress - A data structure for those numbers
• IPEndPoint - What we can connect to

[thekosmonaut]

oooh interesting!

You should post this in the monogame community hub as well

[define-private-public]

New tutorial released today.  This week it's a much simpler one.  I cover the Ping utility that's included in the System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace.

Here is the link

[define-private-public]

Alright, here's one more.  This tutorial is more of a different one.  Instead of creating an application from scratch, we're porting over a C application to C#.  I think this is a good way to illustrate the similarities and differences between Berkeley Sockets (found in C) and the Socket class (from C#).

Here is the link

As a side note, I also fixed the broken links I had up at the table of contents, whoops...