NetDiscovery

Local Network Discovery Library for .NET projects

This project simplifies performing local-network discovery for client and server applications. Server applications can announce their presence on the network, and client applications can find the servers.

Discovery Servers

Discovery servers can announce their presence as follows:

// Create UDP discovery provider (using port 52148)
using var provider = new UdpProvider(52148);

// Create a discovery server advertising the server with the identity of "TestServer"
using var server = provider.CreateServer();
server.Identity = "TestServer";

// Start discovery components
server.Start();
provider.Start();

Discovery Clients

Discovery clients can find servers as follows:

// Create UDP discovery provider (using port 52148)
using var provider = new UdpProvider(52148);

// Create a discovery client printing all servers it finds
using var client = provider.CreateClient();
client.Discovery += (s, e) => Console.WriteLine($"Discovered: {e.Address}: {e.Identity}");

// Start discovery components
client.Start();
provider.Start();