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If you haven't already seen it, my article on sharing state among peers in peer networks is available in the August issue (the current on-the-stands issue) of MSDN Magazine. I'm really pleased that this article got published because, first and foremost, I'm a huge peer networking fanatic and it was great to be able to write an article on peer networks. Secondly, I'm pleased because you rarely see this topic discussed. People usually brush it off or sweep it under the rug because once you look at state sharing in pure peer networks, people often don't know how to share state.
The article points out that there are options (using WCF's peer channel and some synchronization techniques) that you can use for sharing state in peer networks, but it also goes into detail about the various other types of state sharing such as a hybrid peer network with a central state server, etc.
If you're at all interested in networking or peer networks, go check out the issue. I think my article is on like page 105 or something.
Here's a link to the online version of the article, which also includes the code download:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc700336.aspx
Enjoy!
Man, I've been waiting for an article like that for a long time. Well done
Kevin. I've been working on a commercial WPF/P2P app in my spare time. I
haven't gotten to coding the P2P portion but I've had faith the WCF netpeer
transport would suit my needs when the time came. Ultimately I have
unanswered questions about how that portion will work completely but your
article has certainly cleared up some items of concern. Please do keep it
up!
