Would you please link me to the easiest way to "chat" in strings for games in winforms C#?

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I'm making games and I need to make them online so I need to connect to an IP and then exchange strings each playing his turn in the board game. One would be host and one connects to it...

What I have tried:

Winsockets long ago but they were complex and included encoding, I want to exchange unicode strings easily.

Posted 23-Jun-19 6:22am

john1990_1

Updated 23-Jun-19 9:58am

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F-ES Sitecore 23-Jun-19 12:51pm

Google "c# chat application" and you'll find lots of examples.

john1990_1 23-Jun-19 12:58pm

This one?
youtube.com/watch?v=BDVfpPq3weo

BillWoodruff 28-Jun-19 0:15am

There are lots of resources out there for this: get busy.

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RickZeeland · Answer 1 · 2019-06-23T09:59:00

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Here is an example of a SignalR chat application in ASP.NET: Tutorial: Real-time chat with SignalR 2 | Microsoft Docs[^]

It is also possible to use a self-hosted C# application: SignalR with Self-hosted Windows Service[^]

Posted 23-Jun-19 9:59am

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john1990_1 23-Jun-19 17:07pm

I know only C# Winforms.Net, is this one in the following video good?
youtube.com/watch?v=BDVfpPq3weo

RickZeeland 24-Jun-19 1:56am

It's ok if you only have one friend I guess :)
The nice thing about SignalR is that you can broadcast to multiple clients.

john1990_1 24-Jun-19 8:17am

So please direct me to a link on how to do it for more than one peer...

RickZeeland 24-Jun-19 10:11am

See example here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/signalr/overview/guide-to-the-api/working-with-groups

john1990_1 24-Jun-19 10:12am

That's too complicated, would you please provide a link to a video?

BillWoodruff 23-Jun-19 20:50pm

+5

john1990_1 27-Jun-19 15:05pm

That's too complicated, would you please provide a link to a video?

BillWoodruff 28-Jun-19 0:14am

My comment was a message to Rick, letting him know I thought his solution was useful, and that I voted it a #5.

john1990_1 28-Jun-19 9:26am

I know, but it's not useful for me, I'm terribly strict on time and I need a simple way to enter IPs and connect to them and exchange Unicode strings among them...

BillWoodruff 28-Jun-19 10:16am

We're here to help you learn, not to write your code for you. People who show effort and determination get lots of help here, every day.

The topic you ask about may involve some complex issues, like authorization, privileges, etc.

If you don't have time to do basic research and experimentation: hire a programmer.

john1990_1 28-Jun-19 10:38am

I'm just learning and practicing as a hobby.