SuperSocket 1.4 series documentation (17) Run SuperSocket in Windows Azure

Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform! Windows Azure uses Microsoft's data center to provide developers with On-demand computing and storage capabilities to host, expand, and manage applications on the Internet.

Applications running on Windows Azure have high reliability and scalability.

SuperSocket-based server programs can run easily on the Windows Azure platform.

Unlike Common Socket server programs, you must first set the Socket program's external Endpoint in the Role attribute:

Then, dynamically obtain the internal Endpoint corresponding to the external Endpoint in the WorkerRole code file:

var instanceEndpoint = RoleEnvironment.CurrentRoleInstance.InstanceEndpoints[serverConfig.Name + "Endpoint"];

The complete code is as follows:

public override bool OnStart()

{

    LogUtil.Setup();

    // Set the maximum number of concurrent connections 

    ServicePointManager.DefaultConnectionLimit = 100;

    // For information on handling configuration changes

    // see the MSDN topic at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=166357.

    var serverConfig = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("socketServer") as SocketServiceConfig;

    if (!SocketServerManager.Initialize(serverConfig, ResolveServerConfig))

    {

        Trace.WriteLine("Failed to initialize SuperSocket!", "Error");

        return false;

    }

    if (!SocketServerManager.Start())

    {

        Trace.WriteLine("Failed to start SuperSocket!", "Error");

        return false;

    }

    return base.OnStart();

}

private IServerConfig ResolveServerConfig(IServerConfig serverConfig)

{

    var config = new ServerConfig();

    serverConfig.CopyPropertiesTo(config);

    var instanceEndpoint = RoleEnvironment.CurrentRoleInstance.InstanceEndpoints[serverConfig.Name + "Endpoint"];

    if (instanceEndpoint == null)

    {

        Trace.WriteLine(string.Format("Failed to find Input Endpoint configuration {0}!", serverConfig.Name + "Endpoint"), "Error");

        return serverConfig;

    }

    var ipEndpoint = instanceEndpoint.IPEndpoint;

    config.Ip = ipEndpoint.Address.ToString();

    config.Port = ipEndpoint.Port;

    return config;

}

In this way, your SuperSocket server program can run correctly on the Windows Azure platform.

For the complete sample code, see the project in the WindowsAzure folder in the source code.