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Asked: 2026-05-27T09:59:42+00:00

Say I want to write a peer to peer chat application. And I use

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Say I want to write a peer to peer chat application. And I use a WCF service as the server that the clients ‘log in’ to so that they can find each other’s ip addresses and ports.

Well, say also I have a textbox in my client application that display all users that are online. Everytime users log in or out I want to update this ‘Who’s online’ textbox so that only the currently online users are shown.

So the server needs to send information out to all clients once a user logs in or out. But it seems WCF can only send data when responding to requests….

Am I missing something here, is WCF able to handle this situation?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There are several approaches to this problem, these would probably be the most common:

    1. Use publish/subscribe, like in this good article.
    2. Keep all the currently logged users in a storage – a database or whatever you’d prefer, and query it from the users’ side.
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