Silverlight P2P application (in browser). Will we get RTMFP?

Question

Well, that’s why of all my research I’m quite positive. P2P is not possible in Silverlight 4 (in the browser).

Flash can perform P2P using Stratus / RTMFP, which I assume uses UDP hole punching and a Stratus server to help initialize the connection.

Are there any plans of Microsoft in the future to add some kind of p2p rendezvous service? Can we get a final yes / no on whether p2p is possible in SL4.

Answer 1

Not sure if this is what you are looking for (since I'm late to the party for this older question), but CodePlex has a P2P library - although it looks like this library has a dependency on Window Live Messenger.

Assuming your Silverlight 4 application does not have to be cross-platform for Mac, you can access the Winsock API either directly or through some kind of COM wrapper.

Answer 2

No, you cannot get the final answer about future Silverlight features on StackOverflow.

If you are interested in this feature being implemented, I suggest you vote by opening Connect Issue and vote for the Problem with UserVoice .