Question

I need to be able to send a string message and receive a string response from a console app running within our organization. I want to pass simple strings back and forth from a remote IP address. What s the best way to do this? My first thought is to listen on a socket, but that seems like overkill. I ve looked a little into becoming a WMI producer/consumer, but that s pretty involved too. Also there s System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp to register for messages.

It seems like any of these methods would work, but what s the easiest way to get an event to fire when a string arrives and how to pass a string back from a c# console app?

Answer 1

I suggest you to create a WCF service, as it seems simpler than your alternatives.

Answer 2

If you need this to be in a console application, I personally think that implementing this using sockets is the easiest option, especially if the "Remote IP Address" isn t written in C# or under your control.

The TcpClient class is quite easy to use, if all you re doing is passing a few strings back and forth.

One potential gotcha: If the "server" on the remote IP isn t written in C#, make sure to take care of any encoding issues in the passed byte stream, since C# uses Unicode strings.

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