Hi,
I a writting a analysis of a current PERL system which has a server pl file that opens a socket to listen to incoming message. On the client, there is another pl file which create a socket to send messages to the server. The webforms are basically HTML which calls pl files to process the incoming message, which are saved to text files.
I recommended the following upgrades:
OPTION #1
1. Replace the server socket listner pl file with WCF web service
2. Replace the client pl with a regular C# execute which accept argument and send the SOAP message to the WCF mesage
3. Replace the HTML webforms and all the pl helper subroutine files with ASP.NET
4. Replace the flat text files with SQL SERVER Compact (no database server - not on budget)
OPTION #2 ?
Is there is an cheaper alternative instead WCF web services. Can a simple C# socket listerner or something else to developed to
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