Serializing object ready to send over TCPClient Stream

Question

I\'ve got a server and client set up using TcpListener and TcpClient.

I want to send an object to my server application for processing.

Answer 1

How would you deserialize the xml House stream back to a House object on the receiving end? I'm refering to the solution given in Fischermaen's answer.

On my recieving end I can see a string representation in my Output window by using the following:

ASCIIEncoding encoder = new ASCIIEncoding();
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(encoder.GetString(message, 0, bytesRead));

Thank you in advance.

EDIT *

Ok well this solution has worked for me. Might need some tidying up.

Here's a method to deserialize a string:

public static T DeserializeFromXml(string xml)
    {
        T result;
        XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
        using (TextReader tr = new StringReader(xml))
        {
            result = (T)ser.Deserialize(tr);
        }
        return result;
    }

Then from my TPC/IP Recieving end I call the method like so:

TcpClient tcpClient = (TcpClient)client;
        NetworkStream clientStream = tcpClient.GetStream();


        byte[] message = new byte[4096];
        int bytesRead;

        while (true)
        {
            bytesRead = 0;

            try
            {
                //blocks until a client sends a message
                bytesRead = clientStream.Read(message, 0, 4096);
            }
            catch
            {
                //a socket error has occured
                break;
            }

            if (bytesRead == 0)
            {
                //the client has disconnected from the server
                break;
            }


            //message has successfully been received
            ASCIIEncoding encoder = new ASCIIEncoding();
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(encoder.GetString(message, 0, bytesRead));

            House house = DeserializeFromXml(encoder.GetString(message, 0, bytesRead));

            //Send Message Back
            byte[] buffer = encoder.GetBytes("Hello Client - " + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString());

            clientStream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
            clientStream.Flush();
        }

        tcpClient.Close();
    }