[Silverlight/C#] Connect Blockland to a website

[ThinkInvisible]

I'm trying to convert the terrain generator I made to a Silverlight-XNA application on a website to avoid installers. Do I need to do anything differently from a C# console program to connect it to a client's Blockland?

This will involve a site hosted on Dropbox (incapable of storing data) and a client add-on.



EDIT: It appears Silverlight doesn't even have the tcpClient/tcpListener class. Does anyone know what I should use instead?

Target program flow:
SL>Prompt user for parameters
SL>Generate terrain
SL>Preview terrain
SL>Connect to Blockland; await connection
BL>Accept connection from SL
LOOP n:
SL>Transmit chunk n to BL as raw data; wait
BL>Find data from SL and use servercmds to plant brick
BL>Send confirmation and brick status to SL
END LOOP n

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[Ipquarx]

You really shouldn't ask here, this is a torquescript board after all.

You can try asking at stackoverflow.com, which is made for all kinds of general programming questions in all different languages.

[Brian Smithers]

You really shouldn't ask here, this is a torquescript board after all.

You can try asking at stackoverflow.com, which is made for all kinds of general programming questions in all different languages.

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I'm pretty sure you can't host sites with Dropbox ( i may be wrong ).
For connecting C# to Blockland you need to set up a socket server and have Blockland connect with it. There shouldn't be anything special, just make sure to include/import whatever C#/XNA uses for Sockets/TCP servers. Also the C# should be the server, socket servers in Blockland are blegh

[ThinkInvisible]

I'm pretty sure you can't host sites with Dropbox ( i may be wrong ).

Well, I can make something that works on the client's side. (Host an HTTP file.) Which is all I need because this won't store any data to the site.

[Brian Smithers]

Well, I can make something that works on the client's side. (Host an HTTP file.) Which is all I need because this won't store any data to the site.

well, what do you want to do with it? because there may be a better way of doing it.

[ThinkInvisible]

SL>Prompt user for parameters
SL>Generate terrain
SL>Preview terrain
SL>Connect to Blockland; await connection
BL>Accept connection from SL
LOOP n:
SL>Transmit chunk n to BL as raw data; wait
BL>Find data from SL and use servercmds to plant brick
BL>Send confirmation and brick status to SL
END LOOP n
Chunks will just be a list of coordinates, datablocks, colors, etc. in string format.

[MARBLE MAN]

SL>Generate terrain

You are hooking your terrain generator to your website?

[Brian Smithers]

http://silverlightsamples.codeplex.com/releases/view/17933

[ThinkInvisible]

http://silverlightsamples.codeplex.com/releases/view/17933

Doesn't work. Wrong version of Silverlight or something; most of the functions used do not exist.