Need help.

Well, I'm trying to make a sharing program (such as LimeWire, no, NOT used for warez). Please, don't accuse me for warez since it's actually not going to be a 'warez' program. Also, if you have a search function I would have been happy.
The whole idea is that you can share files by putting them in a 'share'-folder. Need help

 

this would probably not be too hard. Write a server/client software. The server will store a list of all files on the network and ip's to the people who has it, then you make a client that has a built in webserver to download the data from. That would be a basic one.

 

Yeh, but remember that I'm a beginner at .net
But will try it, thanks
btw: How do I download p2p?

 

Well although this wouldn't be in the too hard basket it would be alot more stable to program something like this in Java.

 

I don't know Java

 

the language doesn't matter Covey. All it needs is a stable server.

 

Stable server?

 

For it to work, you will require your system to be always online for the other system to accept.

To do so, you will need a good understanding about bytes/packets and a bit about memory.

From here, create a server class and a client class. To do so, check out the Object Browser in Visual Studio (C#, VB, etc.) and explore the System.Net.Socket name space. All the tools are in there to send arrays of bytes and packets and accept. Use pointers to read the packets and to edit/write on them.

If you want to make a IRC, using the Encoding.Ascii class to convert strings into arrays of bytes or array of bytes into a string. GetBytes and GetString.

What speljohan is saying is that you require a stable server because your server needs to withstand client attacks and not give out any confidential information. Otherwise, you are screwed.

 

Ehh this probably won't help you, but here is a free professionally made program that does the same thing, if you want to make a program like this because you need it then just use Tubes, if you're making it for fun then use Tubes as an example.

http://www.tubesnow.com/ (TubesNow not TubeSnow)

"Tubes instantly builds synchronized, secure connections (what we call a "tube") between your desktop and the desktop of your friends, family, co-workers - even your other computers. Now anything you drop in a tube is whisked to the desktop of anyone you choose - and vice versa. And Tubes syncs any changes in every tube ensuring you’re always up to date - even when you don’t have an internet connection."

 

nphp20, thx for ur help (and others too), does that thingy include sourcecode?

 

unfortunately its not open source.. the only way it'd be useful for you was if you based your program off that design, sorry.

 

It's okay