I have a project which has been working great for about a year now. There have been some changes requested by the users which will allow me to redesign the project from the ground up. Basically, it's a form which allows the users to input data about a product they want a drawing for. The input data is compiled into a text file which is then attached to an e-mail and sent to another server in the LAN for processing. The e-mail method works but there have been some problems with it and it's slower than what I've been testing with P2P method.
So I'd like to ask for some advice from this forum. What would be a practical and sane format to use for this. I prefer the P2P method in that instead of sending an e-mail, the client app will send a data stream over a port to the server which is listening for this data stream. The client app will also be listening for the reply from the server to tell it the results of some pre-calculations before the drawing is requested as well as if the data they input exceeds the capacity of the design parameters or if it passed through successfully, and I guess it should also report any error in case of network latency, etc... I think a nice pop-up Message box after the calculations are okayed would be nice and then allow the user to proceed with their request.
I'm using the TcpListener and TcpClient classes. Keeping everything straight on each end is the trick. Also a log will be kept and that part will be easy. If anyone has some suggestions or comments on how I should proceed I would appreciate it.
So I'd like to ask for some advice from this forum. What would be a practical and sane format to use for this. I prefer the P2P method in that instead of sending an e-mail, the client app will send a data stream over a port to the server which is listening for this data stream. The client app will also be listening for the reply from the server to tell it the results of some pre-calculations before the drawing is requested as well as if the data they input exceeds the capacity of the design parameters or if it passed through successfully, and I guess it should also report any error in case of network latency, etc... I think a nice pop-up Message box after the calculations are okayed would be nice and then allow the user to proceed with their request.
I'm using the TcpListener and TcpClient classes. Keeping everything straight on each end is the trick. Also a log will be kept and that part will be easy. If anyone has some suggestions or comments on how I should proceed I would appreciate it.