I recently had a problem on a job where no matter what we did, we could not control the left/right balance programmatically on two specific PC’s. We tried using various methods: Windows Media player API DirectSound APi WinMM.dll Praying None…

Firefox 3.0 is officially the most popular web browser in Europe, according to StatCounter’s latest statistics. Although Mozilla’s browser lags behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer if you add all of the latter’s different versions together, FireFox has finally pipped IE7 as…

One way to get yourselves rated better in the search engines is to get rid of the basic aspx page and replace it with something much more descriptive so this article goes on how to use URLrewriting in your project.

Quake Live – can’t wait to play this…. Eagerly awaited online shooter Quake Live goes into open Beta today, with the ad-supported game likely to quickly pick up a fan base. The game formerly known as Quake Zero is id…

A campaign calling for the immediate death of Internet Explorer 6 is picking up pace, with a host of developers castigating the browser that ‘hindered the development of the web’. .net magazine is supporting a campaign to rid the world…

Add META keywords and Description in ASP.NET Here is the syntax for programmatically adding META tags to an ASP.NET 2.0 page. HtmlMeta metaDesc = new HtmlMeta(); metaDesc.Name = “description”; metaDesc.Content = “Tips on roasting coffee at home”; Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaDesc); HtmlMeta metaKey…

Some people aren’t natural networkers. You might be quite introverted or perhaps you have some deep misgivings about the concept of “networking” (maybe it seems fake to you, and you think it’ll mean “using” people). No matter, you can still keep up friendships and make new contacts – without having to resort to some the tactics some would call “sleazy marketing”.

My previous article which you can find at http://blog.xploiter.com/index.php/2009/01/16/socket-programming-in-c-using-the-built-in-libraries-a-fully-working-production-example-part-1/ covered the creation of a solid production ready Socket Server written in C#. I promised to follow up with part 2 which would be a suitable client so without further ado, here we go

One of the things i’ve noticed over the last few months in particular is the lack of decent programming examples in C# for a suitable client/server socket solution that just works! I was working on a contract that needed a robust and stable communications mechanism between multiple PC’s on a closed network for a Railway Simulator and Aircraft Simulator I was working on.

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