Question Need Some Help with TCPClient NetworkStream Reading

[Daniel3120]

At the minute when i try to read from the TCPClient NetworkStream, I have no way to set the read buffer to the correct amount of data being received on the stream.

I have tried using TCPClient.Client.ReceiveBufferSize but this is always 8192 even if the data being received is less than that.

It is important because i end up with a load of 0 bytes at the end of the buffer which is causing me a lot of problems.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get it to set the buffer to the correct size? heres my code so far, its running on a different thread to TCP:

Private Sub Listen()
            Try
                Do Until nolisten = True

                    Do Until ns.DataAvailable
                        'wait until data available or disconnected
                    Loop

                    errtimeout.Stop()

                    If ns.DataAvailable Then
                        Dim size As Integer = TCP.Client.ReceiveBufferSize
                        Dim b(size) As Byte
                        'ns.Read(b, 0, size)
                        ns.BeginRead(b, 0, size, New AsyncCallback(AddressOf nsread), b)
                    End If

                Loop
            Catch ex As ObjectDisposedException
            End Try
        End Sub

 

[JohnH]

NetworkStream.EndRead function returns the number of bytes that was actually read from the BeginRead request, so you know how much you got.

 

[Daniel3120]

NetworkStream.EndRead function returns the number of bytes that was actually read from the BeginRead request, so you know how much you got.

Thanks very much, worked perfectly