How to send UDP multicast packets through Silverlight?

silverlight, udp

Solution

Silverlight 4 supports UDP for multicast.

Articles / Examples

- example of using UDP multicast support in Silverlight 4

- blog entry from the System.Net Team

Classes

- UdpAnySourceMulticastClient

- UdpSingleSourceMulticastClient

Problem

I'm trying to find a way to send a udp broadcast packets through a silverlight application. Most of the research i've done lists that this is not possible through silverlight due to the support for sockets being limited to tcp only. But is there some other way to send a broadcast packet for example through javascript or something that the silverlight application can call?

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