C# Sockets wait and listen

[aatif]

I am working a c# socket based client application, the problem I am facing is I cannot get the reply of my message from the remote machine. The 'read' function returns (immediately) unsuccessful (0) most of the times. How can I wait for some response? Assume that the server needs some time (about 1 minute) for processing my request, before replying.

try
{
    TcpClient tcpclnt = new TcpClient();
    Console.WriteLine("Connecting.....");
    tcpclnt.Connect(m_host, m_port); // ip and port of server
    Console.WriteLine("Connected");
    Console.Write("Enter the string to be transmitted : ");
    String str = Console.ReadLine();
    Stream stm = tcpclnt.GetStream();
    ASCIIEncoding asen = new ASCIIEncoding();
    byte[] ba = asen.GetBytes(str);
    Console.WriteLine("Transmitting.....");
    stm.Write(ba, 0, ba.Length);
                
    byte[] bb = new byte[100];
    int k = 0, counter = 0;

    k = stm.Read(bb, 0, 100);
                
    Console.Write("Response from "+m_host+": ");
    for (int i = 0; i < k; i++)
        Console.Write(Convert.ToChar(bb[i]));

    //Console.ReadKey(true);
    tcpclnt.Close();
    result = 1;
}

[Plater]

You could consider waiting for tp.Available > 0.
But you would need to remember to allow other processes/threads be active during it, and maybe make a timeout