Question

Can we do Socket Programming in ASP.NET/WCF? Like the service listens on a port for incoming requests. All the clients from outside the network also publish/listen on that ip:port

Whenever the service writes anything on the port, all the clients get that thing without polling.

Is something like this possible with ASP.NET/WCF?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are talking about WCF/ASP.NET, those two are much “higher” above the socket level.
Answering you question – yes, you can do socket programming with .NET framework.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.sockets.aspx

EDIT

BTW, I smell something wrong then hear “sockets.. cloud”, you are probably missing something. Taking into account avaliable techlologices for distributed/networking programming doing socket programming nowadays seems illogical.