Socket.Receive Method (Byte[])

public int Receive (
	byte[] buffer
)

public int Receive (
	byte[] buffer
)

public function Receive (
	buffer : byte[]
) : int

Parameters

buffer

An array of type Byte that is the storage location for the received data.

Return Value

The Receive method reads data into the buffer parameter and returns the number of bytes successfully read. You can call Receive from both connection-oriented and connectionless sockets.

This overload only requires you to provide a receive buffer. The buffer offset defaults to 0, the size defaults to the length of the buffer parameter, and the SocketFlags value defaults to None.

If you are using a connection-oriented protocol, you must either call Connect to establish a remote host connection, or Accept to accept an incoming connection prior to calling Receive. The Receive method will only read data that arrives from the remote host established in the Connect or Accept method. If you are using a connectionless protocol, you can also use the ReceiveFrom method. ReceiveFrom will allow you to receive data arriving from any host.

If no data is available for reading, the Receive method will block until data is available, unless a time-out value was set by using Socket.ReceiveTimeout. If the time-out value was exceeded, the Receive call will throw a SocketException. If you are in non-blocking mode, and there is no data available in the in the protocol stack buffer, the Receive method will complete immediately and throw a SocketException. You can use the Available property to determine if data is available for reading. When Available is non-zero, retry the receive operation.

If you are using a connection-oriented Socket, the Receive method will read as much data as is available, up to the size of the buffer. If the remote host shuts down the Socket connection with the Shutdown method, and all available data has been received, the Receive method will complete immediately and return zero bytes.

If you are using a connectionless Socket, Receive will read the first queued datagram from the destination address you specify in the Connect method. If the datagram you receive is larger than the size of the buffer parameter, buffer gets filled with the first part of the message, the excess data is lost and a SocketException is thrown.

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

The following code example receives data on a connected Socket.

// Displays sending with a connected socket
// using the overload that takes a buffer.
public static int SendReceiveTest1(Socket server)
{
    byte[] msg = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("This is a test");
    byte[] bytes = new byte[256];
    try 
    {
        // Blocks until send returns.
        int i = server.Send(msg);
        Console.WriteLine("Sent {0} bytes.", i);
        
        // Get reply from the server.
        i = server.Receive(bytes);
        Console.WriteLine(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes));
    }
    catch (SocketException e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0} Error code: {1}.", e.Message, e.ErrorCode);
        return (e.ErrorCode);
    }
    return 0;
}

// Displays sending with a connected socket
// using the overload that takes a buffer.
public static int SendReceiveTest1(Socket server)
{
    ubyte msg[] = Encoding.get_UTF8().GetBytes("This is a test");
    ubyte bytes[] = new ubyte[256];
    try {
        // Blocks until send returns.
        int i = server.Send(msg);
        Console.WriteLine("Sent {0} bytes.", (Int32)i);
        // Get reply from the server.
        i = server.Receive(bytes);
        Console.WriteLine(Encoding.get_UTF8().GetString(bytes));
    }
    catch (SocketException e) {
        Console.WriteLine("{0} Error code: {1}.", e.get_Message(),
            (Int32)(e.get_ErrorCode()));
        return e.get_ErrorCode();
    }
    return 0;
} //SendReceiveTest1

• SocketPermission  for accepting connections from the network. Associated enumeration: Accept.

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

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