Hi nana_nisreen,
I have created two WinForm projects, one is UDP server and the other is UDP client.
In UDP server project, I created a form which contains a RichTextBox named richTextBox1 to show message and a Button named btStart to start/stop the listening. This is the code snippet:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Threading;
namespace UDPServer
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
delegate void ShowMessageMethod(string msg);
UdpClient _server = null;
IPEndPoint _client = null;
Thread _listenThread = null;
private bool _isServerStarted = false;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void serverMsgBox_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.btStart.Text = "StartServer";
}
private void btStart_Click(object sed, EventArgs e)
{
if (_isServerStarted)
{
Stop();
btStart.Text = "StartServer";
}
else
{
Start();
btStart.Text = "StopServer";
}
}
private void Start()
{
//Create the server.
IPEndPoint serverEnd = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, 16000);
_server = new UdpClient(serverEnd);
ShowMsg("Waiting for a client...");
//Create the client end.
_client = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, 0);
//Start listening.
Thread listenThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Listening));
listenThread.Start();
//Change state to indicate the server starts.
_isServerStarted = true;
}
private void Stop()
{
//Stop listening.
_listenThread.Join();
ShowMsg("Server stops.");
_server.Close();
//Changet state to indicate the server stops.
_isServerStarted = false;
}
private void Listening()
{
byte[] data;
//Listening loop.
while (true)
{
//receieve a message form a client.
data = _server.Receive(ref _client);
string receivedMsg = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(data, 0, data.Length);
//Show the message.
this.Invoke(new ShowMessageMethod(ShowMsg),new object[]{ "Client:" + receivedMsg });
//Send a response message.
data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("Server:" + receivedMsg);
_server.Send(data, data.Length,_client);
//Sleep for UI to work.
Thread.Sleep(500);
}
}
private void ShowMsg(string msg)
{
this.richTextBox1.Text += msg + "\r\n";
}
}
}
In UDP client project, I also created a form which contains a RichTextBox named richTextBox1 to input or show message and a Button named btSend to send the input message. You can run several instances of this project. The server would cope with all the running clients. This is the code snippet:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Net;
using System.Threading;
namespace UDPClient
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
UdpClient _server = null;
IPEndPoint _client = null;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void serverMsgBox_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Get the server.
_server = new UdpClient("127.0.0.1", 16000);
//Create a client.
_client = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, 0);
}
private void Form1_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
_server.Close();
}
private void btSend_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Send the input message.
string text = this.richTextBox1.Text;
_server.Send(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(text), text.Length);
//Receive the response message.
byte[] data = _server.Receive(ref _client);
string msg = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(data, 0, data.Length);
//Show the response message.
this.richTextBox1.Text = msg;
}
}
}
This link shows the details about UDPClient class and a sample:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.sockets.udpclient.aspx.
Let me know if this helps.
Aland Li
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