About Receiving Message continuously from another application

[pvenkatesh2k4]

hi to all,
i am new to .net development. i have daveloped an application which is to receive continuosly from another using socket programming.i have used the following statement


while(true)
{

-----
client.receive( data);
-------parsing code
}


actually this code prevent me from using other controls in the form. but i need to access other controls.is any other way to identify the arrival of data in the remote host.
please help me to learn.
thanks a lot to transfering ur knowledge

[Plater]

You will probably need to run that socket code in a seperate thread

[pvenkatesh2k4]

You will probably need to run that socket code in a seperate thread

thanks for your reply.and also i have found new problem with my receive method.Message( Alerts,Updates about a device) will arise from different clients. but my receive method receives all the message as a whole.but i need message by message.is there any mechanism to read message by message?

[Plater]

Stick a delimenator in your messages or give your messages a header that says how big they will be?