C# streaming sockets, how to separate messages?

Question

Kinda long title, but anyways...

I\'ve been looking at these examples, specifically on the parts on writing and reading the size of the message to the byte streams

Answer 1

I guess this should do that: (I assume your data is a string)

Stream stream = tcpClient.GetStream();
Encoding encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("encoding name");

byte[] bytes = encoding.getBytes(data);

stream.Write(BitConverter.GetBytes((short)bytes.Length),0,2); // hope data isn't longer that 64k
stream.Write(bytes,0,bytes.Length);