Socket listening

[choopie]

I want to listen ip host with a specified port number. But not local ip address. I've tried to do it using three classes IPEndPoint, Socket, NetworkStream, but I couldn't see any data (in a MessageBox for example). I use: private static string connectSocket(string address, int port) { //address = "10.0.105.4"; //port = 4000; String data = null; try { Byte[] bytes = new Byte[256]; IPEndPoint endPoint = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse(address), port); Socket socket = new Socket(endPoint.AddressFamily, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp); socket.Connect(endPoint); NetworkStream ns = new NetworkStream(socket); Int32 i; while((i = ns.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)) != 0) { data = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes, 0, i); } return data } Does anyone know how to solve this?

[Eitsop]

Err... The line that goes:

data = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes, 0, i);

Should you appending? i.e.

data += System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes, 0, i);

It is that simple, just adding the data += instead of data = ?

- Eitsop What we do not understand we do not possess. - Goethe.

[choopie]

Thanks but still it should return to me any data without appending.