Home-brew Your Own Instant Messenger App with Visual Studio .NET
Learn .NET network programming by writing your own chat application, and in the process, create a slick client-server application that supports simultaneous conversations with multiple clients.
by Wei-Meng Lee
May 11, 2005
riting networked applications is one of the most interesting aspects of programming. It is both rewarding and intriguing to see your applications successfully communicating over the network. In this first part of a two-part series on network programming, I am going to build a chat application that works similar to MSN Messenger (or ICQ). Using the chat application, I will illustrate how network programming is done in .NET and the various challenges in building a multi-user chat application.
Figure 1 shows the application that I will build in this article.
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riting networked applications is one of the most interesting aspects of programming. It is both rewarding and intriguing to see your applications successfully communicating over the network. In this first part of a two-part series on network programming, I am going to build a chat application that works similar to MSN Messenger (or ICQ). Using the chat application, I will illustrate how network programming is done in .NET and the various challenges in building a multi-user chat application.
