Commands in .NET C#

More details are at:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_programming_language
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csharp and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_.NET

Sending commands to the Lanbox in the .NET framework from Microsoft is not too difficult. Using a TcpClient object you connect to the corrrect ipadres and port and start sending commands. Below is an example written in C#. Just copy past and start working.

• First it starts by setting op a TcpClient object that connects to a IpAdres and a port.
• Second it creates a stream to read and write the data to the network.
• Then you have to connect to the Lanbox. And send a password to connect.

C# Code example

public void Connect() 
{
    //Connect
    TcpClient client = new TcpClient("[adres]", [port]);
    NetworkStream nstream = client.GetStream();

    //On connection first login
    if (ReadStream(nstream).Contains("password")) 
    {
        WriteStream(nstream, "[password]\r");
        if (ReadStream(nstream).Contains("connected"))
            return true; //Connected
        else
            return false; //Connection failed
    }
}

public string ReadStream(NetworkStream stream) 
{
    byte[] bytes = new byte[256];
    stream.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Lenght);

    return Encoding.ByteToString(bytes);
}

public void WriteStream(NetworkStream stream, string message) 
{
    byte[] bytes = Encoding.StringToByte(message);
    stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
}

This example is just a basic example to login. After this you could send command to the Lanbox see for commands the reference.

Lanbox SDK For a .NET based framework to communicate with the Lanbox see https://sourceforge.net/projects/xspotlanbox/. This is a project in development but has great functionality. And if you want to contribute you may. It's free for everybody. Just as open as the Lanbox.

-- MatthiasGlastra - 14 Aug 2007