C# Why doesn't “Flush” force the bytes down the network stream?

Question

I have a project where I\'m trying to send a serialized object to the server, then wait for an "OK" or "ERROR" message to come back.

I seem to be

Answer 1

I believe the real problem here may be that the XmlDeserializer may not return until it has read EOS from the stream. You may need to shutdown the sending stream for output to force this to happen.