How To Get The Shared Dictionary

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You can get a reference to the shared dictionary that is used by all the SharedPhidgets components and skins. This lets you read and modify entries in the shared dictionary directly.

Note: this is only recommended for advanced developers! Be aware that by changing wrong entries in the dictionary, the complete SharedPhidgets infrastructure might become instable.

Note: you need the GroupLab .Networking toolkit to work with a shared dictionary and subscriptions

GroupLab.SharedPhidgets.ConnectionManager connectionManager
= new GroupLab.SharedPhidgets.ConnectionManager();

GroupLab.Networking.SharedDictionary sharedDictionary =
connectionManager.getSharedDictionary();

Then you can setup a new subscription object that receives all the entries in the shared dictionary:

GroupLab.Networking.Subscription subscription
= new GroupLab.Networking.Subscription();

subscription.BeginInit();
subscription.Dictionary = sharedDictionary;
subscription.Pattern = "/*";
subscription.Notified
+=new GroupLab.Networking.SubscriptionEventHandler(subscription_Notified);
subscription.Enabled = true;
subscription.EndInit();

You also need this callback method of the notification event handler:

private void subscription_Notified(object sender, GroupLab.Networking.SubscriptionEventArgs e)
{
string path = e.Path;
object receivedValue = e.Value;

// Your code here
}