Creating A WPF Chat Client Server Application. Note This tutorial is fairly extensive, if you are after something shorter please also see our Getting Started and How To Create a Client Server Application In Minutes tutorials. Note. 2 This example is included, and has been significantly extended to demonstrate further features, in the examples bundle included in the package downloads. Before we get started ensure you have Visual Studio 2. Can I Remove Microsoft Net Framework 4 Client Profile Example' title='Can I Remove Microsoft Net Framework 4 Client Profile Example' />Well, I have learned that. Win8. 1. NET Framework 1. Win8. 1. 2. Add NetworkComms. Net DLL to Project. Docx File Reader Software Free Download. The NetworkComms. Net download package contains DLLs for all supported platforms but we are only interested in the Net40. Register for an exam. Browse through the list of Microsoft Certification exams you can take to validate your skills and to help further your. Runtime changes affect all apps that are running under a. NET Framework it was not compiled against and that use a particular feature. In the topics that describe. Describes the. NET Framework 4 Reliability Pack update that ships in conjunction with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Microsoft Silverlight library, learning resources, downloads, support, and community. Evaluate and find out how to install and use Silverlight. This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License CPOL. Express or later installed, which should come with. Net 4 or later. 1. Can I Remove Microsoft Net Framework 4 Client Profile Example' title='Can I Remove Microsoft Net Framework 4 Client Profile Example' />Create Visual Studio Project. Create a new visual studio solution containing a Visual C WPF Application project naming it WPFChat. ExampleRight click on the project just created and select Properties. Ensure the Target Framework is. NET Framework 4 and not. NET Framework 4 Client Profile. You should now have something that looks like this. Freshly created visual studio application named WPFChat. Example2. Add Network. Comms. Net DLL to Project. The Network. Comms. Net download package contains DLLs for all supported platforms but we are only interested in the Net. Release Complete DLL. Copy this DLL to the same location as the solution we created in step 1. We now need to add a project reference to the Network. Comms. Net DLL we just added. Right click on the WPFChat. Example project and select Add Reference. Within the window that opens select the Browse tab and select the DLL we just added. If you expand the References folder within the project you should now see the Network. Comms. Net reference you just added like this WPFChat. Example WPF application containing a reference to the complete Network. Comms. Net DLL. 3. Add WPF Elements. We need to add the text boxes and buttons that we intend to interact with to the WPF layout. To get started double click the Main. Window. xaml file so that it opens in the main viewer The open Main. Window. xaml file showing both Design and XAML. If you wanted to you could now add each individual text box and button by hand. To save a little time however we have provided a base layout that you can copy and paste. Copy and paste the following code to replace ALL EXISTING code in the XAML view of Main. Window. xaml. lt Window x ClassWPFChat. Example. Main. Window. TitleNetwork. Comms. Net WPF Chat Example Height3. Width5. 12 BackgroundFF7. CA0. FF Resize. ModeCan. Minimize. lt Grid. Text. Box Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin6. Nameserver. IP Vertical. AlignmentTop Width9. Label ContentServer IP Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin8,6,0,0 Namelabel. Vertical. AlignmentTop. Text. Box Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin1. Nameserver. Port Vertical. AlignmentTop Width4. Label ContentPort Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin1. Namelabel. 2 Vertical. AlignmentTop. Text. Box Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin1. Namechat. Box Vertical. AlignmentTop Width3. Is. Read. OnlyTrue Vertical. Scroll. Bar. VisibilityVisible. Label ContentMessages from Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin3. Namelabel. 3 Vertical. AlignmentTop Width9. Text. Box Height1. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin3. Namemessages. From Vertical. AlignmentTop Width1. Is. Read. OnlyTrue Vertical. Scroll. Bar. VisibilityAuto. Label ContentLocal Name Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin2. Namelabel. 4 Vertical. AlignmentTop. Text. Box Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin3. Namelocal. Name Vertical. AlignmentTop Width1. Label ContentMessage Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin5,2. Namelabel. 5 Vertical. AlignmentTop. Text. Box Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin6. Namemessage. Text Vertical. AlignmentTop Width3. Button ContentSend Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin3. Namesend. Message. Button Vertical. AlignmentTop Width1. Check. Box ContentEnable Server Height1. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin3. Nameenable. Server Vertical. AlignmentTop. Check. Box ContentUse Encryption Height1. Horizontal. AlignmentLeft Margin3. Nameuse. Encryption. Box Vertical. AlignmentTop. Grid. lt Window 1. Windowx ClassWPFChat. Example. Main. Window        xmlnshttp schemas. TitleNetwork. Comms. Net WPF Chat ExampleHeight3. Width5. 12BackgroundFF7. CA0. FFResize. ModeCan. Minimize    lt Grid        lt Text. Box Height2. 3Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin6. Nameserver. IPVertical. AlignmentTopWidth9. Label ContentServer IP Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin8,6,0,0Namelabel. Vertical. AlignmentTop        lt Text. Box Height2. 3Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin1. Nameserver. PortVertical. AlignmentTopWidth4. Label ContentPort Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin1. Namelabel. 2Vertical. AlignmentTop        lt Text. Box Height2. 31Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin1. Namechat. BoxVertical. AlignmentTopWidth3. Is. Read. OnlyTrueVertical. Scroll. Bar. VisibilityVisible        lt Label ContentMessages from Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin3. Namelabel. 3Vertical. AlignmentTopWidth9. Text. Box Height1. Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin3. Namemessages. FromVertical. AlignmentTopWidth1. Is. Read. OnlyTrueVertical. Scroll. Bar. VisibilityAuto        lt Label ContentLocal Name Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin2. Namelabel. 4Vertical. AlignmentTop        lt Text. Box Height2. 3Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin3. Namelocal. NameVertical. AlignmentTopWidth1. Label ContentMessage Height2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin5,2. Namelabel. 5Vertical. AlignmentTop        lt Text. Box Height2. 3Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin6. Namemessage. TextVertical. AlignmentTopWidth3. Button ContentSendHeight2. Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin3. Namesend. Message. ButtonVertical. AlignmentTopWidth1. Check. Box ContentEnable ServerHeight1. Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin3. Nameenable. ServerVertical. AlignmentTop        lt Check. Box ContentUse EncryptionHeight1. Horizontal. AlignmentLeftMargin3. Nameuse. Encryption. BoxVertical. AlignmentTop    lt Grid lt Window The design window should now show the equivalent of the XAML you have just pasted from above. This gives us the very basic layout of the chat application After Copy and Paste of the example xaml code the design window should now show the basic layout. Press F5 on your keyboard to ensure that the project builds successfully i. Errors List window in Visual studio remains empty. If the project does not build at this point please go back over this tutorial and make sure you have completed all of the necessary steps. If the project does build you should now see the WPF application, although of course, we still need to add all of the functionality. The WPF chat application example. All of the layout elements have been added but lack any functionality. Add Chat. Message Wrapper Class. The next step is to create a wrapper class for the messages we will be sending and receiving, i. Right click on the project and select Add New Item. This should bring up the Add New Item window, a list of options that you can add to the project.