I am starting on a fairly basic Server/Client application (logic wise), but I am a bit confused as to what I should use for my needs. It looks like there a few options, but basically I am going to have a Master Server, and X amount of client applications (one per dedicated machine). The main purpose of this setup is so that I can basically do the following…
-Issue command to server (console app) via an ASP front end to install software on one of the remote clients.
– Server tells client to download zip package (from a various FTP site) to location and extract it to specific path.
I am not positive, but it looks like C# has Sockets and then some sort of WebClient type of deal. I am assuming Sockets would be the best route to take, and to use asynchronous (each remote client is connected in its own thread, dealing with the server individually of others).
Any information on this would be great!
Without going into too much detail for your specific requirements, I would definitely look at WCF.
It encompasses a lot of the existing remoting, client / server, web services scenarios in a very complete and secure framework.
Client Server Programming with WCF