Client Server Programming help

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Dear Friends,

Hope you are fine.

I am thinking to develop a client-server desktop application with vb.net. Client may be 100-150 in terms of quantity. Remote Server will have a real IP and sql server 2005 express running. Client machines will connect the server with dial-up internet.

When a user will press a button, an specific funtion/method (on the server machine) will be invoked, tasks will be done, then return data to the form controls.

sample data might be - Create new user with UserID, FullName, Address, Contact No. If this data is saved successfully in database, a datagridview on the same form (client machine) will be updated.

I am planning it doing by socket programming. But facing problems in sending multiple field data.

Please help me how can i do it. You don't have to write code for me, just tell me the way.

Posted 13-Jul-11 22:02pm

Saumitra Kumar Paul

Updated 13-Jul-11 23:10pm

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2011-07-13T22:15:00

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If you haven't strict requirements about the 'desktop' part, why don't you use a web server instead? You know, you would have the clients almost for free (the browsers) and a bit of infrastructure already done.

Posted 13-Jul-11 22:15pm

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Saumitra Kumar Paul 14-Jul-11 4:24am

is there any way to do it through desktop application?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Jul-11 4:27am

Oh yes, sure.
--SA

CPallini 14-Jul-11 4:31am

Of course. You have already broadly depicted the right way to do so. Now you have just to design a simple high level protocol for your client/server communication and do a bit of networking development.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Jul-11 4:27am

Makes sense, my 5. Well, I think the only problem is the stateless nature of HTTP. If the application is "almost stateless", the benefits of this idea are obvious, in the opposite case (when too much activity for state support is required) a custom client and server might be better.
--SA

Saumitra Kumar Paul 14-Jul-11 4:43am

dear SAKryukov, would you please explain it little more?