Question

while (!Server.isShuttingDown)
{
   Server.client = Server.listener.AcceptTcpClient();
   Connection con = new Connection(Server.client);
}

How do I make it so that the server knows when the client is connected? I made a class for what happens when the client connects but that is useless ’till I make it so that it knows when the client connects.

Answer 1

Well the AcceptTpcClient method will block until a client connects – so insert a line between that and the Connection constructor call… or even after it, assuming that the Connection constructor starts a new thread.

Mind you, it looks like you’re overwriting the value of a single variable variable – Server.client – on each iteration, which doesn’t sound like a good idea. I suspect you’d be better off with:

while (!Server.IsShuttingDown) {
    var client = Server.Listener.AcceptTcpClient();
    // Act on "client has connected" here
    Connection con = new Connection(client);
}

(It’s not clear why the Server object itself isn’t doing all of this… or at least exposing an AcceptTcpClient method itself. Currently this looks like a bit of a violation of the Law of Demeter.)