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.
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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.
Sorry if my question is confusing but what I am looking to do is this. I am creating an application that is supposed to send and receive files directly to another machine without having to connect to any other application but the windows explorer on another machine. I know you can write a client and server much like a FTP program, but that's not what I am looking for. An application simply connects to Windows or windows explorer on another machine for sending or receiving files.
I have looked or researched for information online, but not much to look at.
Is there a way to do this? If so, how.
MORE INFO:
I want to be able to start my application on a machine and send and receive files automatically from or to another local machine without establishing any direct connection very much like what Microsoft Window does. You open your windows explorer and drag and drop files from or to another machine. Only that I want to do that programmatically within my application. I start my application and simply request or send for specific file at a specific location. The way I have it written now you have to run two different copies of the same program on different machines - one as a server and the other as a client.
Maybe what I am looking for is a way to get access to the filesystem of another local machine without socket to socket connection.
Thanks in advance.
Windows Explorer is not an application that foreign programs can "connect" to. You need to connect to something that will actually be listening for connections. The most direct way would probably be to set up a network share on the server and then use WNetAddConnection2 to connect to that share on the client.
I want to develop a software which restricts users internet access using vb6 or vb.net.
This is not a baby sitter program but
1) whenever a client machine takes any browser it should ask for username and password.
2)There should be option for adding new users at the server side application.
can anyone suggest any name of such a software. or some sites where I can get some help
on the same..
You could implement a HTTP proxy using sockets. You would turn off internet connection sharing on your server and configure the other machines to connect to the web via your proxy.
I would recommend going for an off the self solution e.g. in a router rather than building something from scratch.
If you are dead set on using VB6 you could make use of the winsock control. Here is a project using winsock to serve files. You could modify it to become a multithreaded proxy server instead. It will be a tough challenge though.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/winsock.aspx
A bit of a generic question but let's say you have a desktop app that allows a user to connect to a central server and provides functionality like:
Login
Ability to auto-download profile data on login
Download and uploading save files through the app
A web-server (JSP/ASP.NET/PHP/etc) would do lots of work for you especially on the request-serving and threading front, but it seems a bit of a cheat for a desktop app to use HTTP requests like this.
All thoughts welcome. Maybe this should be community wiki?
If you want to leave things open for other possibilities in the future, go with a web server. That way, if you decide to write a web-based version of your desktop app (or an iPhone/Pre/Android application), you don't have to rewrite your socket server. Almost everything can speak HTTP these days.