TCPListener

[Guest]

hi, when u say "open the file" do u mean using the

System.IO.File.Open(filename)" method?

also how can i get the size of the file?

thanks

 

[Wicksy]

the System.IO.StreamReader object is pretty good, and has all the methods
you need:

Dim file1 As New StreamReader("D:\test.txt")
Dim filelen As Long = file1.BaseStream.Length
MsgBox(filelen) ' length of file

dim lineOfText as String

while file1.EndOfStream = False ' are we at the end of file yet?
lineOfText = file1.ReadLine() ' read line of file
end while

file1.close()


For sending chunks of data of a specific size (for network sending), use
ReadBlock() instead of ReadLine().

 

[Guest]

thanks, that works great for text, but how can i do it for say an image or
file?

 

[Wicksy]

in exactly the same way as you did it for text.
The computer does not distinguish between "text" and "image". Its all just
1's and 0's to the machine.

The StreamReader can therefore read any data, and a TCP socket can send any
data.