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How to transfer a string over LAN?

I have two applications which are running on computers on a LAN. I need to transfer a string between them but I can't do this because the Socket.Send method doesn't accept a string. Is there any way to do this?

Solution

  • transfer your String into a Byte-array with the following function:

    Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(str)

    ByteArrays can be handled by the Socket.send function.

    On the other side, convert your Byte-array into a string again:

    Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer)