I've been working on my XNA implementation of the network API I built for a project disconnected to XNA framework and annoucements. Mainly my main tasks have been defining the XNA developer requirements and based on those requirements define a network framework as well as the inner design.

Basically, I thought most of the XNA developers would be hobbiest developers at least until the XNA Game Studio Pro is released by Microsoft.

Therefore, I decided to provide XNA developers with a simple but fully featured client server framework. I still have to find a suitable name for this framework but here is a list of the features anyone will find in it:

• Full TCP protocol support
• Full UDP protocol support with reliable and unreliable message distribution
• Multithreaded
• Message broadcast through all clients thanks to Multicast for LAN (Local Area Network)& ...

I developed some time ago a managed network API that I'm using for a prototype project I am working on. It's quite easy to use and it has the main features needed for a simple game.

It supports UDP (reliable/unreliable), TCP and HTTP protocols which are the most used protocols.

I am planning to make a port of my code to XNA using the Game framework to make it even simpler to add networking capabilities to games.

I have a lot of ideas around this and I'll let you know more as soon as I'll get my hands on the design.