Handling dropped TCP packets in C#

Question

I\'m sending a large amount of data in one go between a client and server written C#. It works fine when I run the client and server on my local machine but when I put the

Answer 1

Well there's one thing wrong with your code to start with, if you're counting the number of calls to Receive which complete: you appear to be assuming that you'll see as many Receive calls finish as you made Send calls.

TCP is a stream-based protocol - you shouldn't be worrying about individual packets or reads; you should be concerned with reading the data, expecting that sometimes you won't get a whole message in one packet and sometimes you may get more than one message in a single read. (One read may not correspond to one packet, too.)

You should either prefix each method with its length before sending, or have a delimited between messages.