Using grpc-dotnet as a simple 1-to-1 raw socket connection without web functionality

Question

Using 'old' school grpc to setup simple client server communication channel (basic sockets) now seems impossible when using grpc-dotnet. It seems like this feature is not present anymore. Is this correct?

I would like to setup basic rpc communication without having web abilities (that is not used). Is there a way to this?

Goal: Utilizing rpc generation with proto's and setup basic socket communication.

Answer 1

You can still build a simple gRPC server application using grpc-dotnet.

Follow the tutorial in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/grpc/grpc-start?view=aspnetcore-7.0&tabs=visual-studio-code

The server built by the above tutorial is a standalone server application that contains its own Kestrel web server. The fact that it is a web server is probably irrelevant to your application - it is just a means of providing the HTTP/2 server used by gRPC.