Sending 3 bytes message in UDP

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Hi all,

I'm trying to do a small application that can simply send a 3 bytes message in UDP to a specified IP address but I cannot make it work.
All I want seems really simple, just a small interface with one textbox to specify the destination IP address and one single button to send a 3 bytes message like "0x01 0x25 0xFA" in a single packet to the IP specified in the textbox and using a fixed port specified directly in the code.
This look so simple, and is probably very simple, but... ;o)
I tried to use the udpClient.Send command but it seems I don't really understand how to use it.
Can you help me ?

Many thanks

Vince

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Hi,
OK, I agree my information are a little bit short ;o)
So, first of all, I'm a newbee in "modern" developpment. I made a lot of things 10 or 15 years ago but only very simple things since that time.
Here is my non working code I made after checking weveral websites and examples (please don't laugh ;o) )

VB

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Dim DestinationIP As IPAddress
Dim bytCommand As Byte() = New Byte() {}
Dim udpClient As New UdpClient

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim pRet As Integer

DestinationIP = IPAddress.Parse(DestIP.Text)
udpClient.Connect(DestinationIP, 10242)
pRet = udpClient.Send("0x01 0x25 0xFA", 3)
Console.WriteLine("No of bytes send " & pRet)

End Sub
End Class

I always get errors on the udpClient.Send line. On the code above the error is "Value of type 'String' cannot be converted to '1-dimentional array of byte'.

Thx

Posted 27-Mar-13 2:03am

MadeByVince

Updated 27-Mar-13 2:51am

Thomas Duwe

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[no name] 27-Mar-13 8:10am

"cannot make it work" is not a helpful description of any kind of a problem. Where is the code that demonstrates your problem?
"Can you help me ?", the only actual question asked, probably, maybe, but you did not define what your actual problem is so the real answer is, "not at the present time".

Jochen Arndt 27-Mar-13 8:16am

In addition to the above comment, please tell us which language you are using or better adjust the tag (only one of C++, C#, and VB).

[no name] 27-Mar-13 8:36am

Your error is simple. You are trying to send a string when Send is expecting an array of bytes. Either convert the string to an array of bytes or use an array of bytes. Reading the documentation for the Send method is a good place to start. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/08h8s12k.aspx

MadeByVince 27-Mar-13 8:44am

Thank you for the answer and sorry for the bad post... I didn't saw there was different places for comments and solution...
On the conversion point of view, I was this but I cannot find the right way to do the good convertion, the message I'm trying to send is what the device at the other end is expecting. I just know it wants a 0x01 0x25 0xFA in a single UDP packet to do what I want but I cannot find the right way to send it on the correct format.
I also tried with the message in a textbox and this conversion :
MyMessage = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(TextToSend.Text)
pRet = udpClient.Send(MyMessage, MyMessage.Length)
But when doing this I have a 14 bytes message...

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Thomas Duwe · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-27T02:46:00

Hi,

the UdpClient.Send method expects an array of byte to send, so the line

pRet = udpClient.Send("0x01 0x25 0xFA", 3)

needs to be replaced with

pRet = udpClient.Send(new byte[] {0x01, 0x25, 0xFA}, 3)

Please be aware, that this is c# code, not vb, so you have to adjust it.

FYI, here is some c# code which you can use to send:

C#

// create socket using udp protocol
using (Socket sock = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Dgram, ProtocolType.Udp))
{
   // create remote endpoint with specific ip address and port
   IPEndPoint endPoint = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse("10.10.10.2"), 11000);

   // send datagram to this remote endoint
   sock.SendTo(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x25, 0xFA }, 0, 3, SocketFlags.None, endPoint);
}

Or:

C#

// new udp client that uses local port 11000 to communicate
UdpClient udpClient = new UdpClient(11000);

// connect to ip address and remote port
udpClient.Connect(IPAddress.Parse("10.10.10.2"), 11000);

// send datagram
udpClient.Send(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x25, 0xFA }, 3);

// close udp client
udpClient.Close();

Hope this helps,

Thomas.