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•Created by Boggo on 3/15/2023 in #help

❔ multiple Async responses

So im trying to use async for the first time, i am making a few api requests one after the other, the issue is that the order gets mixed up since the requests are being made asynchronously. I need a way of ensuring the order is enforced

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 3/14/2023 in #help

❔ ListBox Text OverFlow

I am using a list box to store messages on a message app. However if a message is of a certain length it will overflow and go off screen, i want to either enable some form of multi line?

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 3/13/2023 in #help

❔ Client-Server Encryption

Whats the best way to encrypt data sent from a client to server --> server to client?

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 3/12/2023 in #help

❔ Cross Thread synchronization of locks

In over my head, I am trying to use a lock to pause some code on one thread, and i want to release (Monitor.Exit()) from another thread. How do i synchronise this?

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 3/11/2023 in #help

❔ Auto Properties

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 3/9/2023 in #help

❔ Hosting a server

I am currently hosting a server on local network, the server is console app running c#. I want to be able to connect from elsewhere. Whats the best approach to this? I have in mind hosting somewhere or setting up my wifi with some portforwarding stuff?

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 3/9/2023 in #help

❔ Wait until Queue isnt empty

The obvious solution would be to run an infinite loop with an if condition, but this hardly seems an effective solution. Is there a way to pause the program until the queue has some data in it?

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 2/18/2023 in #help

❔ Client-Server Model

So im hosting a server locally on 127.0.0.1 so currently i can only connect to it from my own computer. If i want to be able to access it from anywhere assuming its running, how can i do this?

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 2/16/2023 in #help

❔ 2D Dictionary

i'm wondering if it would be possible to create a 2d Dictionary of sorts where it would look something like: Dictionary<key, Dictionary<key, value>>. Context is each server should have a dictionary of clients, with an associated tcpClient value.

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 2/15/2023 in #help

❔ labelling data types in packet headers

So im sending a packet over a network stream, wanting to add the packet type to the header, but how do i do this. Do i add it as a string then use a switch statement on the server side to determine what to cast it to? This seems inefficient.

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 2/14/2023 in #help

❔ Sizing of Byte Arrays

So im sending byte arrays over a network stream, the byte arrays represent objects of various types. I am wondering how best to assign a size to the byte array when recieving it, should it be done dynamically in each case somehow? or does it not matter if the end of the byte array is empty?

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 2/7/2023 in #help

❔ Basic Networking

On client side of a client-server model. Is it best to globally define a tcp Client and network stream and keep this open, flushing after operations. or to open and close a network stream locally each time its required?

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 1/25/2023 in #help

❔ Image.FromStream

i have this code (below) that im 99% sure was working before, now testing again is giving an error thrown my the Image.FromStream Class

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 1/25/2023 in #help

✅ Binary Formatter

What is better practice to use rather than binary formatter? VS tells me its obsolete

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 1/17/2023 in #help

✅ Best way to get a response from an API

Needing to get a small image from an API response, im aware of multiple ways of doing this, is it best practice to use webclient or something like HttpWebRequest?

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CC#

•Created by Boggo on 1/17/2023 in #help

❔ DataGridView Buttons

So I'm trying to put some data from a database into a DGV, i wish to have a button as the last column which would be clickable etc. I am populating the DGV with a datatable so how can i add this button?

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