Posted on by Lukasz Pyrzyk This year a have a pleasure to be a speaker on the one of the biggest dev conference in Poland – 4Developers. It is a conference focused on the four assumptions – idea, interdisciplinarity, participation and community. During one day you can listen and watch presentation of more than 130 speakers and learn new things from 13 paths like .NET, Java, Javascript or gamedev. I will present .NET Core in 2017, which is a talk about present current architecture of .NET, .NET Standar...

Any Kronos client will be available to use three basic commandsInsertGetDelete In future I want to add few more, like Count and GetKeys. Each of requests to the server serialized to binary form is preceded by few bytes of meta-data, including RequestType. In code its represented as a Request class, which in addition to type has two generic methods. At the beginning they might look difficult, but they are quite simple. First of them is responsible for sending any request to the server via special connec...

In the third post about XGain I would like to say something about the heart of server. TcpListener is a great class to build server. It has a normal and async methods, you can choose between Socket and TcpClient. Unfortunately writing this same logic for new project might be boring.

Network layer is really hard to test and debug. XGain works on the Socket class level and this class doesn’t have an interface. That means testing of any component references to this type is really hard, but everything is possible.

New plugin for Visual Studio 2015 – Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools (download here) provides new templates for .NET Core – Console Application and Class Library. These templates are the base structure for all multi-platform projects in .NET. Let’s start with executable type – Console Application. By default this one contains three files – AssemblyInfo.cs, Program.cs and project.json. Program file provides an entry point for application – just like normal static Main method in .NET Framework. The last ...