Peer Channel is a multiparty, peer-to-peer (P2P) communication technology in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). It provides a secure and scalable message-based P2P communication channel for application developers. One common example of a multiparty application that can benefit from Peer Channel is a collaborative application, such as chat, where a group of people chat with one another in a peer-to-peer manner without servers. Peer Channel enables P2P collaboration, content distribution, load balancing, and distributed processing for both consumer and enterprise scenarios.

Peer Channel is enabled by default on , as is all of WCF. To access Peer Channel classes, add references to System.ServiceModel.dll to your project.

The following sections contain information about peer-to-peer networking and the use of Peer Channel classes to create peer-enabled network applications.

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Peer Channel Code Examples

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