I currently create a SL/XNA application.How should I do if the user A want to connect to user B through the application?
Here are two ways you can do this:
Create web services that both phones connect to and build logic to allow the two to communicate via the services.
Ex: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg241261.aspx
Use SignalR to allow both phones to talk to each other in real time. You can open up the SignalR WP7 solution and take a look.
Example: http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Windows-Phone-SignalR-Awesome-Possibilities.aspx
Github: https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/
Wiki: https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/wiki
Hope this helps!
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I want to gather some information from a windows 10 machine over the internet using the thingworx platform.
Here's a scenario:
Admin logs into thingworx app
Exisiting or new computer (windows 10 ) is added (serial number computer)
Thingworx platform creates a thing based on a created template
User receives application key which will be entered on a client which is installed on the computer
Client is started based on event and sends data to thingworx platform
Communication is secured
Is there a best practice or even a client available / open source or Licence based which relieves the headache of security etc.?
Yes, alwaysOn is used mostly as web socket protocol for communication between devices & ThingWorx platform. Apart from these one case also use MQTT.
If you want to use for Demo/Academic Purpose then use Thingworx Academic Simulator. I have been using it for Testing many scenarios.
Download Link - http://apps.ptc.com/schools/software/ThingWorxAcademicSimulatorSetup.exe
I am writing an app that allows creation of pppoe in windows phone 7.goal is to be able to dial a connection with given username/password over wireless.
t what API I shall use?
I've not worked with PPPoE but, given the name, you'll probably need to use raw sockets.
Take a look at Network and Web Services Overview for Windows Phone to see what options are available to you. Then you'll probably need to look at Sockets for Windows Phone and the related System.Net.Sockets reference documentation.
I just started to build an App for Windows Phone 7 and I want to know if the WP7 support the ad hoc connection for app since I want to use the ad hoc connection to do something for my app. Actually I searched the library and I don't get anything useful related to this issue.
Actually what I want to do is to connect two phones via the ad hoc network. My app initiates the ad hoc network wait for other phone running the same app to join the network and communicate
No. WP7 does not allow you to create an adhoc network through the public APIs.
If you have 2 devices on the same wireless netowrk you can create a UDP conenction between the two though.
I'm trying to find a way of automatically discovering and communicating with a local network service running on desktop/laptop. Much like the Zune's wifi sync feature.
iPhone can do this using Bonjour service. Is there anything like that on WP7 platform? Any other suggestions?
There is currently nothing like this available in the SDK.
Network operations are currently very limited and you're restricted to HTTP based connections. I'm not sure how useful that would be for the scenario you describe.
Hi
I would like to retrieve documents from an ftp in my Windows phone 7 application (built with XNA in my case).
As far as I understand WP7 does not support ftp due to port and protocol(?) contraints.
Is there any way to get ftp support working?
I guess I will be able to implement it my self once socket support is added but I dopn't wan't to wait for that.
Cheers
/Jimmy
Since there are no supported socket capabilities in the initial release of WinPhone , you cannot directly FTP. You would have to create an "FTP Proxy" web service which your phone would call and have the service do the actual FTP and relay the files.
FTP and Sockets are not supported by the platform at the moment.
If you want to get remote files on to your phone you'll have to use HTTP(S).
You can do this either with the HttpWebRequest or WebClient classes depending on your specific needs.
Do you want to retrieve files fromn the phone, and over the cellular network? If so you need to confirm your operator allows ftp connections to your phone, which they probably do not.
If you're connecting over wifi, you've got more chance of this working.
Otherwise, you could implement a dropbox-style approach where the phone and your file-retrieving application both connect to a remote server
If this is for development purposes, you can get access to the phones storage and copy in files by using Microsoft's SmartDevices API.
I'm trying to do the same but so far the only way I've found around it is to create a web service to run on my own server which retrieves the FTP files on behalf on the phone.
Wish MS would hurry up and give us sockets - calling a web service is fine but I'm pretty sure it would be slower than directly getting the FTP files from the phone itself.