Sending and receiving custom objects using Tcpclient class in C#

Question

I have a client server application in which the server and the client need to send and receive objects of a custom class over the network. I am using TcpClient class for transmi

Answer 1

Have a look at this code. It takes a slightly different approach.

Example given by the link above: - Note: there was another problem he was facing which he solved here (keep-alive). It's in the link after the initial sample code.

Object class to send (remember the [Serializable]):

[serializable] 
public class Person { 
   private string fn; 
   private string ln; 
   private int age; 
   ... 
   public string FirstName { 
      get { 
         return fn; 
      } 
      set { 
         fn=value; 
      } 
   } 
   ... 
   ... 
   public Person (string firstname, string lastname, int age) { 
      this.fn=firstname; 
      ... 
   } 
} 

Class to send object:

using System; 
using System.Net; 
using System.Net.Sockets; 
using System.Runtime.Serialization; 
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary; 

class DataSender 
{ 
  public static void Main() 
  { 
   Person p=new Person("Tyler","Durden",30); // create my serializable object 
   string serverIp="192.168.0.1"; 

   TcpClient client = new TcpClient(serverIp, 9050); // have my connection established with a Tcp Server 

   IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter(); // the formatter that will serialize my object on my stream 

   NetworkStream strm = client.GetStream(); // the stream 
   formatter.Serialize(strm, p); // the serialization process 

   strm.Close(); 
   client.Close(); 
  } 
} 

Class to receive object:

using System; 
using System.Net; 
using System.Net.Sockets; 
using System.Runtime.Serialization; 
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary; 

class DataRcvr 
{ 
  public static void Main() 
  { 
   TcpListener server = new TcpListener(9050); 
   server.Start(); 
   TcpClient client = server.AcceptTcpClient(); 
   NetworkStream strm = client.GetStream(); 
   IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter(); 

   Person p = (Person)formatter.Deserialize(strm); // you have to cast the deserialized object 

   Console.WriteLine("Hi, I'm "+p.FirstName+" "+p.LastName+" and I'm "+p.age+" years old!"); 

   strm.Close(); 
   client.Close(); 
   server.Stop(); 
  } 
}