Continuously send mouse position to another machine

Question

What would be the best way to continuously send the mouse position to another computer in C#?

So far I use a TCP socket for transportation. I get the ToString() of MousePosition, convert it to byte[] and send that byte array. On the receiving side I append the bytes to a StringBuilder, parse it and construct a new point. At least it works :-)

I'm new to .net (though I know some Java) and I think there is a better way.

Can one serialize / deserialize a System.Drawing.Point in some (elegant) way? Can one send this serialized object to a remote machine? And if so, how?

Regards
Mike
[;-)

Answer 1

Don't bother with either serialization or strings: just send down the pair of coordinates as integers. You can use BitConverter to convert integers into bytes - or just use BinaryWriter for writing and BinaryReader for reading.

Answer 2

System.Drawing.Point is already marked with <Serializable>, so if you want to, you can use .NET's built in serialization.