The Advanced Computing Services Messaging library allows Client/Server Communications. Each instance can either be a Server or a Client and supports TLS1.2 encryption.
The Server now supports basic Access Control Rules with some further validation via a Challenge. Challenge needs to be less than 1KB - in most instances a GUID or something short will be used.
In 2010 I found a library written by jmcilhinney who released a project here. It was a great library to learn async networking in VB.NET. My immediate need was binary data, not text.
Various updates were made, such as:
- Support binary data for use in all kinds of applications.
- Bump in .NET framework version meant I could switch from using callback methods to the async/await keywords.
- Added support for encryption (TLS1.2 is forced if secure communications are enabled).
- Migration from VB.NET to C# (to migrate to .NET Core / Standard, C# was needed as VB.NET consistently lagged behind in terms of feature support in new versions of .NET etc.).
TODO: Add documentation on library usage.
Basic sample code below, however, intellisense should provide details on usage. The sample projects also contain useful code for using some of the features.
Server Init:
// Init MessageServer Object
MessageServer MS = new MessageServer(int Port, bool IsSecure, X509Certificate Certificate);
// Attach event handlers to functions
MS.ConnectionAccepted += MS_ConnectionAccepted;
MS.ConnectionClosed += MS_ConnectionClosed;
MS.MessageReceived += MS_MessageReceived;
MS.Log += MS_Log;Client Init:
// Init MessageClient Object
MessageClient MC = new MessageClient(string Server, int Port, bool IsSecure);
//Attach event handlers to functions
MC.ConnectionAccepted += MC_ConnectionAccepted;
MC.ConnectionClosed += MC_ConnectionClosed;
MC.ConnectionFailed += MC_ConnectionFailed;
MC.MessageReceived += MC_MessageReceived;
// Connect to Remote Host (Server)
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