Generally speaking your queries are executed (processed) in the following order: 1. FROM 2. ON 3. OUTER 4. WHERE 5. GROUP BY 6. CUBE | ROLLUP 7. HAVING 8. SELECT 9. DISTINCT 10 ORDER BY 11. TOP "My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there." - Charles F. Kettering

Why on God's Green Earth are you using Sockets for this???!!! Use the http classes in the .Net framework and save yourself a lot of headaches. This isn't even worth discussing if you want to use sockets. "Quality Software since 1983!" http://www.smoothjazzy.com/ - see the "Programming" section for freeware tools and articles.

you need to stop the thread you started by joining them and if you don't have threads, you should close the clients Client.Close();:wtf:

use System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(file name);

We have semaphore class my articles

For serious string parsing check out the Regex class. Example here.[^]

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