PAF-Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology

College of Computing and Information Sciences - North Campus

Course :NW411

Create a C# Multi Threaded Socket program.

a) C# Multithreaded Server Socket
b) C# multithreaded Client Socket

Output:

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C# Multithreaded Server Socket
using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
TcpListener serverSocket = new TcpListener(8888);
TcpClient clientSocket = default(TcpClient);
int counter = 0;

serverSocket.Start();
Console.WriteLine(" >> " + "Server Started");

counter = 0;
while (true)
{
counter += 1;
clientSocket = serverSocket.AcceptTcpClient();
Console.WriteLine(" >> " + "Client No:" +
Convert.ToString(counter) + " started!");
handleClinet client = new handleClinet();
client.startClient(clientSocket, Convert.ToString(counter));
}

clientSocket.Close();
serverSocket.Stop();
Console.WriteLine(" >> " + "exit");
Console.ReadLine();
}
}

//Class to handle each client request separatly

public class handleClinet
{
TcpClient clientSocket;
string clNo;
public void startClient(TcpClient inClientSocket, string clineNo)
{
this.clientSocket = inClientSocket;
this.clNo = clineNo;
Thread ctThread = new Thread(doChat);
ctThread.Start();
}
private void doChat()
{
int requestCount = 0;
byte[] bytesFrom = new byte[10025];
string dataFromClient = null;
Byte[] sendBytes = null;
string serverResponse = null;
string rCount = null;
requestCount = 0;

while ((true))
{
try
{

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 requestCount = requestCount + 1;
NetworkStream networkStream = clientSocket.GetStream();
networkStream.Read(bytesFrom, 0,
(int)clientSocket.ReceiveBufferSize);
dataFromClient =
System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytesFrom);
dataFromClient = dataFromClient.Substring(0,
dataFromClient.IndexOf("$"));
Console.WriteLine(" >> " + "From client-" + clNo +
dataFromClient);

rCount = Convert.ToString(requestCount);
serverResponse = "Server to clinet(" + clNo + ") " +
rCount;
sendBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(serverResponse);
networkStream.Write(sendBytes, 0, sendBytes.Length);
networkStream.Flush();
Console.WriteLine(" >> " + serverResponse);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(" >> " + ex.ToString());
}
}
}
}
}

C# multithreaded Client Socket

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Text;

namespace WindowsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient clientSocket = new
System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient();
NetworkStream serverStream;

public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{
msg("Client Started");
clientSocket.Connect("127.0.0.1", 8888);
label1.Text = "Client Socket Program - Server Connected ...";
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{
NetworkStream serverStream = clientSocket.GetStream();
byte[] outStream = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("Message
from Client$");
serverStream.Write(outStream, 0, outStream.Length);
serverStream.Flush();

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 byte[] inStream = new byte[10025];
serverStream.Read(inStream, 0,
(int)clientSocket.ReceiveBufferSize);
string returndata =
System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(inStream);
msg("Data from Server : " + returndata);
}

public void msg(string mesg)

{
textBox1.Text = textBox1.Text + Environment.NewLine + " >> " +
mesg;
}
}
}

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