GRPCBlueprint

Simple demo implementation of GRPC in Csharp under .NET Framework 4.7.2.

Structure

Project	Purpose
GRPCDemo2	Contract - messages, data objects and interfaces definition, protofile
GRPCClient	Client implementation
GRPCServer	Server implementation

TODO / Last news

• gRPC Csharp future library

NuGet dependencies

• Google.Protobuf, 3.17.2
• Grpc.Core, 2.38.0
• Grpc.Core.Api, 2.38.0
• Grpc.Tools, 2.38.0
• System.Buffers, 4.4.0
• System.Memory, 4.5.3
• System.Numerics.Vectors, 4.4.0
• System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe, 4.5.2

Consult packages.config.

Features

• proto v. 3 is used in example
• GRPCDemo2 project uses pre-build script for run proto file compilation - check your processor architecture 32/64 (this is not needed in .NET Core project template - improved process out of the box)

Demos

• 1 request - 1 reply
• 1 request - N replies
• N requests - N replies

See also - Links, reviews, tutorials

General:

• peerislands: Microservices, gRPC and Protobuf - architecture, history concepts comparison
• GRPC.io: Basics tutorial C#

.NET Core:

• Microsoft: Introduction to gRPC on .NET 2021 ASP.NET Core
• Microsoft: gRPC services with C#
• codemartini.com: gRPC .Net Core sample with Stream call

Java:

• Programmersought: Heterogeneous communication between Java and node in gRPC-mutual client and server

C++:

• CapNProto - competitor to gRPC for C++