TcpListener and TcpClient (an easy-to-use example)
During the weekend I needed some tool: Have to be able to listen on some port and to do something “useful”. First I was trying to use sockets. But I’ve found useful classes: TcpListener and TcpClient. It was exactly what I was looking for. Here you can “taste” the example.
using System;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
namespace port_listen
{
class MainClass
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Starting...");
TcpListener server = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Parse("0.0.0.0"), 66);
server.Start();
Console.WriteLine("Started.");
while (true)
{
ClientWorking cw = new ClientWorking(server.AcceptTcpClient());
new Thread(new ThreadStart(cw.DoSomethingWithClient)).Start();
}
server.Stop();
}
}
class ClientWorking
{
private Stream ClientStream;
private TcpClient Client;
public ClientWorking(TcpClient Client)
{
this.Client = Client;
ClientStream = Client.GetStream();
}
public void DoSomethingWithClient()
{
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(ClientStream);
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(sw.BaseStream);
sw.WriteLine("Hi. This is x2 TCP/IP easy-to-use server");
sw.Flush();
string data;
try
{
while ((data = sr.ReadLine()) != "exit")
{
sw.WriteLine(data);
sw.Flush();
}
}
finally
{
sw.Close();
}
}
}
}
