Working with WebSockets in .Net When hosting your web sockets at the server side using .Net, you have a few choices. You can host a WebSocket server in traditional ASP.Net or ASP.Net MVC applications.

A socket is the end point of a bi-directional communication between two processes running over a network. You can leverage the System.Net and System.Net.Sockets namespaces to work with sockets in C#.

We're going to be using a Linux server distro as our server operating system, so the hardware can be minimal. An old Core 2 Duo or Pentium box gathering dust in the corner should work fine.

Second, the licensing moves to a per core model. Instead of 2012's two socket license pack, 2016 will use a 2 core pack, with the license cost of each 2016 pack being 1/8th the price of the ...