hi, does anyone have any experience with this? it would seem packets are sent differently between these two languages. if my client sends the data as a class, is there any way i can make that class in C# and deserialize it from the networkpacket? this is for a school project and my server team is dying to use C# but im thinking this is a pain.. does anyone know if im just not doing this right?

what kind of game is it?

(The type of game is irrelevant.) In general, you''ll have to serialize and de-serialize any class/object structures manually. If the client and server are both C++, then you could define a structure X and send(&X, sizeof(X)) and on the other end receive it with a recv(). If you use C# at the other end, you''ll probably have to do some byte manipulating to move the data into a C# class structure.

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If you use C# at the other end, you''ll probably have to do some byte manipulating to move the data into a C# class structure.

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Right, all i can seem to find is code to pluck values out instead of getting the whole class, i tried using C#''s serialzation but the binary array is missing a header or something like that... i just started playing with it. I guess im looking to see if its easily do-able or if i should stay away from this approach

When the .NET serialization stuff serializes something, it adds a bunch of identification data to allow you to easily return the data to the proper classes...

You probably haven't got that information packed in there from the C++ side, so you'll have to manually deserialize the data on the C# side to make sure the decoding matches. Luckily it's not hard

[edited by - Nypyren on October 18, 2003 3:50:07 PM]

right, thanks guys! thats what im doing now.

Just wanted to see if i was walking into a nightmare or not:D