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How to access UDP from Javascript running in WSH?

I am trying to access udp NOT from a browser but running from wscript. I see various solutions that depend on System.Net and System.Net.Sockets but none of them work. They all fail when I try to create the first object (UdpClient).
var listenPort = 11000;
listener = new UdpClient(listenPort);
groupEP = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, listenPort);
The error says:
Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'UdpClient' is undefined
I don't want to be calling external libraries, or install Node.js There surely must be a way to do this, but I can't find it -- or maybe I haven't found the magic search phrase yet.
I would think that WSH would recognize calls from System.Net or System.Net.Sockets, but I guess not. Is there a way to get them included so WSH can access them?
Or is there a better way to do this?
Thanks for your time...
Michael...

How does assert (req.assert) work in nodejs

I am currently working on MEAN stack using node, express and angularjs. I downloaded boiler plate code from mean.io and also using debugger while I explore the code.
In the controller which gets req and res as parameters, how does req.assert work?
In the file server/controllers/users.js
req.assert('username', 'Username cannot be more than 20 characters').len(1,20);
adds into validation error even when the username is empty or null. How do I check for current username value in the req? Where is the assert function of req defined.
I come from java background and find it tricky to find the function code some times as I wont be sure about where is it defined and how is it prototyped. How does one properly read the objects and browse the functions that are being used in javascript?

It's defined in Express's dependency express-validator. Check here: https://github.com/ctavan/express-validator/blob/master/lib/express_validator.js
which depends on validator:
https://github.com/chriso/validator.js

Accepted answer refers to what is now the Legacy API hence broken links.
Check out the documentation for Sanitization and the available sanitizing tools. You can make custom validators in there.

TypeScript use typescript-require shared files

I use TypeScript to code my javascript file with Object Oriented Programing.
I want to use the node module https://npmjs.org/package/typescript-require to require my .ts files from other files.
I want to share my files in both server and client side. (Browser) And that's very important. Note that the folder /shared/ doesn't mean shared between client and server but between Game server and Web server. I use pomelo.js as framework, that's why.
For the moment I'm not using (successfully) the typescript-require library.
I do like that:
shared/lib/message.js
var Message = require('./../classes/Message');
module.exports = {
getNewInstance: function(message, data, status){
console.log(requireTs);// Global typescript-require instance
console.log(Message);
return new Message(message, data, status);
}
};
This file need the Message.js to create new instances.
shared/classes/Message.ts
class Message{
// Big stuff
}
try{
module.exports = Message;
}catch(e){}
At the end of the fil I add this try/catch to add the class to the module.exports if it exists. (It works, but it's not really a good way to do it, I would like to do better)
If I load the file from the browser, the module.export won't exists.
So, what I did above is working. Now if I try to use the typescript-require module, I'll change some things:
shared/lib/message.js
var Message = requireTs('./../classes/Message.ts');
I use requireTs instead of require, it's a global var. I precise I'm using .ts file.
shared/classes/Message.ts
export class Message{
// Big stuff
}
// remove the compatibility script at the end
Now, if I try like this and if I take a look to the console server, I get requireTs is object and Message is undefined in shared/lib/message.js.
I get the same if I don't use the export keyword in Message.ts. Even if I use my little script at the end I get always an error.
But there is more, I have another class name ValidatorMessage.ts which extends Message.ts, it's not working if I use the export keyword...
Did I did something wrong? I tried several other things but nothing is working, looks like the typescript-require is not able to require .ts files.
Thank you for your help.

Looking at the typescript-require library, I see it hasn't been updated for 9 months. As it includes the lib.d.ts typing central to TypeScript (and the node.d.ts typing), and as these have progressed greatly in the past 9 months (along with needed changes due to language updates), it's probably not compatible with the latest TypeScript releases (just my assumption, I may be wrong).
Sharing modules between Node and the browser is not easy with TypeScript, as they both use very different module systems (CommonJS in Node, and typically something like RequireJS in the browser). TypeScript emits code for one or the other, depending on the --module switch given. (Note: There is a Universal Module Definition (UMD) pattern some folks use, but TypeScript doesn't support this directly).
What goals exactly are you trying to achieve, and I may be able to offer some guidance.

I am doing the same and keep having issues whichever way I try to do things... The main problems for me are:
I write my typescript as namespaces and components, so there is no export module with multiple file compilation you have to do a hack to add some _exporter.ts at the end to add the export for your library-output.js to be importable as a module, this would require something like:
module.exports.MyRootNamespace = MyRootNamespace
If you do the above it works, however then you get the issue of when you need to reference classes from other modules (such as MyRootNamespace1.SomeClass being referenced by MyRootNamespace2.SomeOtherClass) you can reference it but then it will compile it into your library-output2.js file so you end up having duplicates of classes if you are trying to re-use typescript across multiple compiled targets (like how you would have 1 solution in VS and multiple projects which have their own dll outputs)
Assuming you are not happy with hacking the exports and/or duplicating your references then you can just import them into the global scope, which is a hack but works... however then when you decide you want to test your code (using whatever nodejs testing framework) you will need to mock out certain things, and as the dependencies for your components may not be included via a require() call (and your module may depend upon node_modules which are not really usable with global scope hacking) and this then makes it difficult to satisfy dependencies and mock certain ones, its like an all or nothing sort of approach.
Finally you can try to mitigate all these problems by using a typescript framework such as appex which allows you to run your typescript directly rather than the compile into js first, and while it seems very good up front it is VERY hard to debug compilation errors, this is currently my preferred way but I have an issue where my typescript compiles fine via tsc, but just blows up with a max stack size exception on appex, and I am at the mercy of the project maintainer to fix this (I was not able to find the underlying issue). There are also not many of these sort of projects out there however they make the issue of compiling at module level/file level etc a moot point.
Ultimately I have had nothing but problems trying to wrestle with Typescript to get it to work in a way which is maintainable and testable. I also am trying to re-use some of the typescript components on the clientside however if you go down the npm hack route to get your modules included you then have to make sure your client side uses a require compatible resource/package loader. As much as I would love to just use typescript on my client and my server projects, it just does not seem to want to work in a nice way.

Solution here:
Inheritance TypeScript with exported class and modules
Finally I don't use require-typescript but typescript.api instead, it works well. (You have to load lib.d.ts if you use it, else you'll get some errors on the console.
I don't have a solution to have the script on the browser yet. (Because of export keyword I have some errors client side) I think add a exports global var to avoid errors like this.
Thank you for your help Bill.

Silverlight 4 MVVM: Call Javascript function from viewmodel

we have developed an Intranet Management Application with Silverlight 4. We have been asked to add the functionality to call a remote desktop tool which is installed on clients using the Intranet SL App. In an earlier version of the tool written in ASP.NET we just added a Javascript function to the aspx page like this:
function RunShellCommand()
{
var launcher = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
launcher.Run("mstsc.exe");
}
and called it from ASP.NET.
Now it's clear that SL4 is running in a sandbox and that I cant use the AutomationFactory to create a WScript.Shell object (out of browser mode is not an option).
I thought I could circle around the problem by, again, adding the RunShellCommand javascript method in the aspx page where the SL4 control is hosted and call it via
HtmlPage.RegisterScriptableObject("Page", this);
HtmlPage.Window.Invoke("RunShellCommand", "dummydata");
from my ViewModel. When I run the Application the debugger just skips the RegisterScriptableObject method and quits. Nothing happens.
My question is if am doing something wrong or if this just wont work this way.
Is it possible that I cant do a RegisterScriptableObject from a viewmodel?
EDIT: When I explicitly put a try, catch block around the two methods I get an ArgumentException from the first method stating that the current instance has no scriptable members. When I delete the first method and only run the Invoke, I get a browser error stating that the automation server cant create the object. So is there really no way (except OOB mode) to do this?

Yes, the explanation is correct: you should add at least one method with the ScriptableMember attribute in order that you can use the RegisterScriptableObjectmethod. But it is used only for calling C#-methods from JavaScript.
As far as I see, you want to do the opposite: to call JavaScript code from the Silverlight application. Then you need only one line:
HtmlPage.Window.Invoke("RunShellCommand");
The error automation server cant create the object has nothing to do with Silverlight. I'm sure that if you call the JS function directly - the error will remain.
According to the internet, the reason might be not installed Microsoft Windows Script. Or it is because of security restrictions of the browser.

Changing the main environment in Node

Some of you may or may not (probably not) know about my framework. It's name is Ally, and I absolutely love using it.
Lately I've been doing a little bit of stuff in Node.js. Today I decided I was going to use it as my HTTP server, so that I could do server-side JS (in a PHP kind of way).
To do this, I started a project I'm calling Trailer . While working on it, I found myself needing one of Ally's functions, Object:deploy. What it does is pretty much this:
var a = { a: 'a' };
a.deploy({ b: 'b' });
a.a; // 'a'
a.b; // 'b'
So I loaded it in..
var Ally = require('./Ally.js');
..but when I tried using it, it said it was undefined.
After a bit of digging I discovered that Object:deploy is defined in the Ally.js file, but the changes it makes to the global constructors don't stay.
How do I make the changes to global variables in the Ally.js file apply to the global variables in the file that required it?
Note: Ally is linked to above if looking through the source could help, and Trailer is linked to in case anyone wants to use it when I get a usable version out.

Is this discussion relevant? The key points here seem to be:
require won't extend global objects if you're working in the shell
It also won't work when NODE_MODULE_CONTEXTS = 1, though this doesn't seem to be the default for a script.
So if you're trying to run this in an interactive shell, that might be the issue. See also this SO question.