We are building a P2P application which requires UDP socket, which is currently not supported by Silverlight 2 Beta 2. As I know, other applications like multiplayer gaming also require this feature. Can anybody here tell me:
1. Is there any perticular reason that stops Microsoft supporting UDP socket in Silverlight 2 Beta 2? Security reason?
2. Will UDP socket be available in the next Silverlight release?
3. Approximately when it will be the next release.
We urge Silverlight team to include UDP socket in the next release. I know there is strong demand from the market about this which is one of the keys to differentiate Silverlight from Flash. This feature could enable huge number of applications and hundreds
of millions of downloads for Silverlight client.
Your correct, right now Silverlight 2 Beta 2 doesn't support by default the UDP, but if you're building a P2P application with Silverlight you should se the following project on codePlex, named
Silverlight P2P Library.
About your questions, The UDP is not there because of security reasons as well as the limitation of using TCP ports only from 4502 to 5432, but you can check
here how you can work with Sockets in Silverlight 2 Beta 2.
jerry_media
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When Silverlight Will Support UDP Socket
Jul 09, 2008 05:17 PM | LINK
We are building a P2P application which requires UDP socket, which is currently not supported by Silverlight 2 Beta 2. As I know, other applications like multiplayer gaming also require this feature. Can anybody here tell me:
1. Is there any perticular reason that stops Microsoft supporting UDP socket in Silverlight 2 Beta 2? Security reason?
2. Will UDP socket be available in the next Silverlight release?
3. Approximately when it will be the next release.
We urge Silverlight team to include UDP socket in the next release. I know there is strong demand from the market about this which is one of the keys to differentiate Silverlight from Flash. This feature could enable huge number of applications and hundreds of millions of downloads for Silverlight client.
Thank you in advance.
Jerry
silverlighlight UDP socket
Nuno.Godinho
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Re: When Silverlight Will Support UDP Socket
Jul 09, 2008 06:37 PM | LINK
Hi Jerry,
Your correct, right now Silverlight 2 Beta 2 doesn't support by default the UDP, but if you're building a P2P application with Silverlight you should se the following project on codePlex, named Silverlight P2P Library.
About your questions, The UDP is not there because of security reasons as well as the limitation of using TCP ports only from 4502 to 5432, but you can check here how you can work with Sockets in Silverlight 2 Beta 2.
Also there's an interesting sample of using networking with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 here (http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/03/22/networking-raw-sockets-in-silverlight-and-wpf-messaging-in-general.aspx), and it has the source code to be downloaded.
Hope it helps.