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Is Socket.BeginReceive(IList<ArraySegment<byte>> buffers.. Not Asynchronous?

Hi all, I have been looking to implement a custom class of : IList<ArraySegment<byte>> this will be passed to a socket, and used as the buffer to receive data from that Socket. Socket.BeginReceive( IList<ArraySegment<Byte>>, SocketFlags, AsyncCallback, Object ) MSDN Documentation While testing I have found that when calli...

C# Socket.BeginReceive/EndReceive

In what order is the Socket.BeginReceive/EndReceive functions called? For instance, I call BeginReceive twice, once to get the message length and the second time to get the message itself. Now the scenario is like that, for every message I send, I start waiting for its completion (actually acknowledgment of the message sent, also I wait...

Catch unhandled SocketException during asynchronous HttpWebResponse read

All the asynchronous calls to HttpWebRequest.BeginGetResponse/EndGetResponse and HttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream().BeginRead/EndRead are made from try/catch blocks, however, these exceptions propagate and do not leave a chance handle them and stop application termination: Unhandled Exception: System.IO.IOException: Unable to read d...

What happens with TCP packets between two Socket.BeginReceive calls?

I have a doubt about socket programming. I am developing a TCP packet sniffer. I am using Socket.BeginAccept, Socket.BeginReceive to capture every packet, but when a packet is received I have to process something. It is a fast operation, but would take some milliseconds, and then call BeginReceive again. My question is, what would happ...

[.NET] BeginReceive / BeginRead timeouts

I'm using a NetworkStream & TcpClient to asynchronously receive data using BeginRead. I need to apply a time-out to this operation, such that after a specified amount of time the read will be aborted. As far as I'm able to tell, this isn't supported on NetworkStream or TcpClient - there is a ReceiveTimeout property, but this appears to...