[Universal 8.1/10] No Tcplistener, Networkstream or StreamSocket? What to do?

So, im trying to adapt a 3rd party IRC library, that works under PC-Windows, to work under universal windows store.
The main problem is, it uses Tcplistener, so im trying to replace it with a SocketClient, but whiout StreamSocket, that does not seems to be present of the namespace that it should its becoming a problem.

So, originally the code that connects the library to the server used a Tcplistener, and StreamWriters and readers
writng a command was this:

writer.WriteLine( command.ToString() );

and for read server commands was this:
reader.ReadLine();

very simple, so my first attempt was to create a SocketClient like this, just to check it whould work using the exact same code,

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Net.Sockets;
2. using System.Threading;
3. using System.Text;
4. using UnityEngine;
5.  
6. public class SocketClient
7. {
8.     Socket _socket = null;
9.     NetworkStream stream;
10.  
11.     public void Connect(string hostName, int portNumber)
12.     {
13.         _socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
14.         try
15.         {
16.             _socket.Connect(hostName, portNumber);
17.             stream = new NetworkStream(_socket);
18.         }
19.         catch (SocketException e)
20.         {
21.             Debug.Log(e);
22.         }
23.     }
24.  
25.     public void Close()
26.     {
27.         if (_socket != null)
28.         {
29.             _socket.Close();
30.         }
31.     }
32.  
33.     public NetworkStream GetStream()
34.     {
35.         return stream;
36.     }
37. }

that worked, perfectely, but now i was depending on NetworkStream, that i cant use either, at this point the logical thing to do whould be use StreamSocket that should do the exact same thing as NetworkStream, but i found to way of using it, strange because that should work on WP and Universal.

Im a final and desperate attempt i tried to do something that im not even sure it could work, and it was just to send and receive menssages with the socket, so i attempted this.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Net.Sockets;
2. using System.Threading;
3. using System.Text;
4. using UnityEngine;
5.  
6. public class SocketClient
7. {
8.     Socket _socket = null;
9.  
10.     public void Connect(string hostName, int portNumber)
11.     {
12.         _socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
13.         try
14.         {
15.             _socket.Connect(hostName, portNumber);
16.         }
17.         catch (SocketException e)
18.         {
19.             Debug.Log(e);
20.         }
21.     }
22.  
23.     public void Send(string data)
24.     {
25.         if (_socket != null)
26.         {
27.             Debug.Log(data);
28.             _socket.Send(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data));
29.         }
30.     }
31.  
32.     public string Receive()
33.     {
34.         string response = string.Empty;
35.         if (_socket != null)
36.         {
37.             byte[] bytes = new byte[512];
38.             _socket.Receive(bytes);
39.             response = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);
40.         }
41.         Debug.Log(response);
42.         return response;
43.     }
44.  
45.     public void Close()
46.     {
47.         if (_socket != null)
48.         {
49.             _socket.Close();
50.         }
51.     }
52. }

Just the server does not seem to care if a send it something, again im not sure if this should work at all, it was something like "ok lets try it because i cant think of anything else"...
I do get the messages from the server, but it just does not responds to anything i send it using this way, maybe because this could only work if the server was another Socket as well?

 

Hey so some stuff got shuffled around or new APIs implemented for Windows Store. Pretty much avoid System.Net. There are different namespaces for that, encryption, file IO, etc.

For example:
Windows.Networking.Sockets namespace
Windows.Security.Cryptography namespace
Windows.Storage namespace

 

thats the thing, it does not allow me to use the Windows namespace somehow, StreamSocket is on Windows.Networking.Sockets.

 

Code (csharp):

1. #if NETFX_CORE
2. using Windows.Networking.Sockets;
3. #else
4. using System.Net.Sockets;
5. #endif
6.  
7. public class SomeClass
8. {
9.   public void Connect()
10.   {
11. #if NETFX_CORE
12.     // do stuff using Windows.Networking.Sockets;
13. #else
14.     // do stuff using System.Net.Sockets;
15. #endif
16.   }
17. }

Alternatively, if you want code complete to work, then you can make stubs for Windows.Networking.Sockets classes wrapped in #if !NETFX_CORE. The stubs only exist on the editor, and the real thing is used when compiling in Visual Studio. (Doesn't work for async methods.)

 

Ok, ive already make it work using streamsocket, thank you.