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Socket.Accept Method

.NET Framework 2.0

Other Versions

Creates a new Socket for a newly created connection.

Namespace: System.Net.Sockets
Assembly: System (in system.dll)

Syntax

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public Socket Accept ()

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public Socket Accept ()

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public function Accept () : Socket

Return Value

A Socket for a newly created connection.

Exceptions

Exception type	Condition
SocketException	An error occurred when attempting to access the socket. See the Remarks section for more information.
ObjectDisposedException	The Socket has been closed.
InvalidOperationException	The accepting socket is not listening for connections. You must call Bind and Listen before calling Accept.

Remarks

Accept synchronously extracts the first pending connection request from the connection request queue of the listening socket, and then creates and returns a new Socket. You cannot use this returned Socket to accept any additional connections from the connection queue. However, you can call the RemoteEndPoint method of the returned Socket to identify the remote host's network address and port number.

In blocking mode, Accept blocks until an incoming connection attempt is queued. Once a connection is accepted, the original Socket continues queuing incoming connection requests until you close it.

If you call this method using a non-blocking Socket, and no connection requests are queued, Accept throws a SocketException. If you receive a SocketException, use the SocketException.ErrorCode property to obtain the specific error code. After you have obtained this code, refer to the Windows Sockets version 2 API error code documentation in the MSDN library for a detailed description of the error.

Note
Before calling the Accept method, you must first call the Listen method to listen for and queue incoming connection requests.

Note
This member outputs trace information when you enable network tracing in your application. For more information, see Network Tracing.

Example

The following code example accepts a simple Socket connection.

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protected void AcceptMethod(Socket listeningSocket)
{
 Socket mySocket = listeningSocket.Accept();
}

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protected void AcceptMethod(Socket listeningSocket)
{
    Socket mySocket = listeningSocket.Accept();
} //AcceptMethod

Platforms

Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see System Requirements.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 2.0, 1.0

Reference

Socket Class
Socket Members
System.Net.Sockets Namespace
Listen
RemoteEndPoint
Socket.BeginAccept

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