The first version of the Socket Helpers library is now on NuGet. It is alpha code and there is always the possibility of drastic breaking changes in the future. Still, if you'd like to try it out, there are a few bits and pieces included so far: …
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Service discovery for mobile apps
In a recent post I talked about sockethelpers and the kinds of problem it aims to help with. Service discovery is the first aspect of the library I've been working on, and that's the topic of this post. The code discussed here is still very alpha - b…
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sockethelpers-for-pcl: Making socket tasks easy that should be
When I first started thinking about the API design for sockets-for-pcl, I made the decision build a minimally functional, unopinionated and lightweight wrapper over the existing platform implementations - no extra features. Part of the reason was to …
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Improvements to sockets-for-pcl
I've been making steady improvements to my sockets-for-pcl library over the last month. There are a number of bugfixes, as detailed in the full changelog. Most of those bugs I've found while building out the upcoming sockethelpers project. However, t…
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sockets-for-pcl: TCP and UDP sockets from the comfort of your PCL
Over Christmas last year, Xamarin ran a Holiday Plugin Contest encouraging the development of open source cross-platform libraries for Xamarin iOS, Android and Windows Phone/Store. The contest was enough of a motivation to look seriously at a problem…