Chat Demo - Articles

The design and implementation of the chat demo are described in detail in two articles:

• Let's Chat! (Part 1)

This article describes the overall requirements and design of the application, including a number of interesting design decisions that are required in order to support web-based clients and to ensure that communications are secure. This article also presents the implementation of the C++ chat server, and shows how to implement a simple command-line client in C++.

• Let's Chat! (Part 2)

This article describes the design and implementation of GUI clients for the chat application in C# and Java. In addition, it shows you how to implement web-based clients using PHP and Silverlight.

Topics

Click on a link below to jump to a section of interest: • Introduction • Concepts • Design • Firewalls • Sessions • Security • Slice Interfaces • C++ Clients • Graphical Clients • PHP Client • Silverlight Clients • iPhone Client

Download

In addition to the demo source code, you can also download pre-compiled versions of the Java and .NET clients.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the chat demo, so please let us know how we can improve it. Comments and suggestions can be posted on our developer forums.