Converting Binary Long to Long (Time Server Client)

[ben merrills]

I'm writing a time server client in C# and obtaining the Binary long from
the server on port 37, however i'm unsure how to convert that to just a long.

To obtain the value i use StreamReader.ReadToEnd() which returns the value
as a string. I tried Int32.Parse(StreamReader.ReadToEnd()) to obtain the
returned value, but to no success.

Can anyone help?

Regards

Ben Merrills

[Ben Merrills]

That's great! Thanks, one other question, here's the response i get (formatted):

Got response from server 1746526400
Closed Server Connection
New Date/Time: 01 January 0001 00:02:54

Now, as you can see that date is wrong, do I have to reverse the byte order
or something?

Regards

Ben Merrills

Mattias Sjögren <mattias.dont.want.spam@mvps.org> wrote:
>Ben,
>
>>To obtain the value i use StreamReader.ReadToEnd() which returns the value
>>as a string. I tried Int32.Parse(StreamReader.ReadToEnd()) to obtain the
>>returned value, but to no success.
>>
>>Can anyone help?
>
>To read integers ans other binary data, use a BinaryReader (in this
>case its ReadInt32 method) instead of a StreamReader.
>
>
>Mattias
>
>===
>Mattias Sjögren (VB MVP)
>mattias @ mvps.org
>http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/

[Mattias Sjögren]

Ben,

>To obtain the value i use StreamReader.ReadToEnd() which returns the value
>as a string. I tried Int32.Parse(StreamReader.ReadToEnd()) to obtain the
>returned value, but to no success.
>
>Can anyone help?

To read integers ans other binary data, use a BinaryReader (in this
case its ReadInt32 method) instead of a StreamReader.


Mattias

===
Mattias Sjögren (VB MVP)
mattias @ mvps.org
http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/

[Mattias Sjögren]

Ben,

>Now, as you can see that date is wrong, do I have to reverse the byte order
>or something?

Dunno, that depends on which format the value has in the stream, and
which format you want to have it in.


Mattias

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Mattias Sjögren (VB MVP)