Introduction
First of all, thanks to Jobin Wilson for this article. It has shown me the principles on which I could build up my solution. You can see it in the wide match in code.
Background
I wanted to pick out the answer to the often asked question: How to use CAsyncSocket in a console application? Is it possible at all?
Using the Code
For me, this question was important because I had to build a Central Communication Manager which coordinates Requests and Services.
About that issue, I see two answers: Yes, it's possible to use CAsyncSocket with full features without a CWin window. No, it's no common Console App. And it works fine. :-)
You need a CWorker class derived from CWinApp, because CWinApp:CWinThread has the MFC-Message-Loop Run().
class CWorkerApp :public CWinApp;
Second, you need your CAsync class derived from CAsyncSocket to override the virtual Callbacks.
class CAsync :public CAsyncSocket;
Third, you must tell CWinApp to run without a CWin-dialog, because by default it stops if it has no window.
AfxOleSetUserCtrl(FALSE);
Keep in mind, you have no UI to that app. You just see it in Task-Manager under Processes and you can Kill it only that way. But the good thing is you can allocate a Console window to put your DEBUG output there.
The rest I found in MSDN documentation, Sample EchoServer, and "of course" in the Internet :))
The full source consists of:
- MyEchoSocket.h
- EchoServer.h
- MyEchoSocket.cpp
- EchoServer.cpp
- StdAfx.h
- StdAfx.cpp
Just a note to the source files: There is also a file:
It is a Win32 Console App with Windows Sockets in blocking mode, intended for testing the CAsyncSocket server.
