Persisting Data

Persistency is currently not covered in the SDKs we provide. None of our applications saves any data. Every game and application is different and on a high performance server solution, you probably want to control this aspect yourself.

You are free to use any of the many professional solutions developed in C#. As example, take a look at:

• NHibernate: mature, open source object-relational mapper for the .NET framework
• Membase: distributed key-value database management system
• CSharp-SQLite: sql database in a local file
• Lightspeed: high performance .NET domain modeling and O/R mapping framework

Trigger game-logic in intervals

If you want your server application to execute some logic in intervals, add this as method into LiteGame and schedule a message for the room. By using a message, the method call will be in-sequence with any operations (avoiding threading issues).

In the Lite Lobby application's LiteLobbyRoom.cs, we used this code:

    
	/// 
Schedules a broadcast of all changes.
	private void SchedulePublishChanges()
	{
		var message = new RoomMessage((byte)LobbyMessageCode.PublishChangeList);
		this.schedule = this.ScheduleMessage(message, LobbySettings.Default.LobbyUpdateIntervalMs);
	}
	
	/// 
Initializes a new instance of the LiteLobbyRoom class.
	public LiteLobbyRoom(string lobbyName)
		: base(lobbyName)
	{
		this.roomList = new Hashtable();
		this.changedRoomList = new Hashtable();

		// schedule sending the change list
		this.SchedulePublishChanges();
	}

	/// 
Sends the change list to all users in the lobby and then clears it.
	private void PublishChangeList()
	{
		//do something in intervals...

		//schedule the next call!
		this.SchedulePublishChanges();
	}
	

As you can see, at the end of PublishChangeList(), the the next call is scheduled explicitly.