This is useful if you want to be able to connect to your FEZ device from a Silverlight application. Silverlight is a great web applet development solution for people who are used to C# and want to try and create a basic web applet that doesn’t require an advanced server solution to use (you can host it using a free Dropbox account).
The usage example shows how to send and receive. This can easily be expanded to show various inputs live in a Silverlight form.
i have made basically the same example, except i used flash. I am learning silver light now to replace flash. Just as an FYI you dont need to use the default port 943 for the policy file request.
Thanks for pointing it out and yeah, I knew, but I figured this way this policy server will run “out of the box” as Silverlight defaults to the TCP protocol.
From the testing I’ve done, Silverlight always uses SocketClientAccessPolicyProtocol.Tcp unless you explicitly tell it to use SocketClientAccessPolicyProtocol.Http. I might be wrong I guess.
Also, it’s only one more port to open if you’re also planning to run the web server on the FEZ, which in my opinion would be a bit silly as there are plenty other much better solutions for that. The idea with this library is that you’ll have the FEZ collecting data, and streaming it live to a Silverlight application running somewhere else, minimizing the work load of the FEZ and maximizing the potential of socket communication between server and client.
ya, make a web server on the FEZ, so when you connect to it via your browser, it will serve up you silverlight app to the PC. then when it starts running on the client computer it will make the TCP connection back to the FEZ so they can start exchanging data back and forth in near real time.
P.S. please dont think that i am harping on ya, I am not doing that at all, great job by the way with the example.
