Recieving zero's instead of string through tcp

[Gangreen]

I work in visual basic,and have 2 forms programs.

One acts as a client, the other as a server. I send two things from client to server;
1: a string describing which service of the server is needed. The server enters a sub based on this string.

2: data needed for the sub the server is in.

However, apparently the second transmission results in 8000+ zero's being recieved instead of the string i sent..

Code: Client

    'will send the info
    Public Sub sendInfo()
        'check connection
        If Not connected Then
            Throw New Exception("There is no connection to the server.")
        End If

       'send message
        Dim sendBytes As [Byte]() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("SERVICE_1")
        networkStream.Write(sendBytes, 0, sendBytes.Length)

        Dim a As String = "string to be sent for the service_1 sub of the server"

        Dim sendBytes2 As [Byte]() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(a)
        networkStream.Write(sendBytes2, 0, sendBytes2.Length)
    End Sub

Code: server

    'will serve a client
    Private Sub serveClient(ByVal client As TcpClient)
        'recieve message
        Dim bytes(client.ReceiveBufferSize) As Byte
        client.GetStream.Read(bytes, 0, CInt(client.ReceiveBufferSize))
        Dim request As String = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes)

        'check needed service

        If matches(request, "SERVICE_1") Then
            service1(client)
        ElseIf matches(request, "SERVICE_2") Then
            service2(client)
        ElseIf matches(request, "SERVICE_3") Then
            service3(client)
        End If
    End Sub


    Private Sub service1(ByVal client As TcpClient)

        Dim bytes(client.ReceiveBufferSize) As Byte
        client.GetStream.Read(bytes, 0, CInt(client.ReceiveBufferSize))
        Dim clientdata As String = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes)
        Dim s() As String = clientdata.Split(";")

        If (s.Length < 3) Then
            MsgBox("string didn't contain ';' zero's recieved")
        End If

        dosomething(s(0), s(1), s(2))

    End Sub

so I repeat, the server does recieve the string "SERVICE_1" correctly, but it does NOT recieve the needed string in service1 sub. What am I doing wrong?

(when I putted breakpoints on all lines, and ran through them, apparently it did recieve it correctly, but it does not do that without breakpoints)

Thanx

[Gangreen]

*bump*
someone, please?

[Plater]

I would say that your first read on the server side is probably reading in BOTH messages, leaving nothing for the 2nd read to read.
If you were doing proper sending and receiving, you would be checking the "actual number of bytes read/written" and validating you have read the correct ammount.

[Gangreen]

I've put a breakpoint only on the line right after the server read the string.

Instead of it being: "SERVICE_1" , it was "SERVICE_1.
(without the ending parenthesis) What's up with that?

Do you have an example of a better way of doing this?

[Plater]

Well I would start by using delimenators or come up with some other messaging format.
With a deliminator you can tell your first read to only read up until the deliminator charater(s). Making sure the data is still there following it.

Also, you tell the send and receive functions to send/receive the size of their buffer, and not the size of data you actually want, try only sending as many bytes as are in your byte[] and see if that helps.