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Pekka Ylenius
Pekka Ylenius

Reputation: 498

Using PeerFinder inside local wired network for P2P communication between Windows 8.1 store apps

Is it possible to use PeerFinder for initiating connection between applications in different PCs inside intranet?

I tried ProximityCS (Windows 8.1) sample and PeerFinder.SupportedDiscoveryTypes returns None for me. (Tested with Windows 8.1 Preview)

I have only found samples to connect using NFC or WifiDirect. Is there any samples of using Infrastructure (TCP/IP) way of connecting?

Is it possible do this manually using Broadcast messages from Windows Store app?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 425

Answers (2)

PESMITH_MSFT
PESMITH_MSFT

Reputation: 358

Windows store apps support multicast; from this you can build your discoverability solution. There's a short video how-to about this on the Channel 9 site at http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Multicast-LAN-Discovery

To send a multicast message in Windows Runtime, just send it to a multicast address. To receive, you just call JoinMulticastGroup and you can start to receive. To increase your code robustness, re-join when you learn about new networks; this will join the multicast group on newly available adapters.

Upvotes: 2

Ashwin Krishnamurthy
Ashwin Krishnamurthy

Reputation: 3758

Peerfinder is part of the Windows.Networking.Proxmity namespace which, as you have mentioned, supports only NFC and WifiDirect for communication and data transfer between two applications in different PCs.

Have you tried using StreamSocket so as to emulate a client-server like communication between two applications?

Upvotes: 0

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