Socket taking too long to close...

[uneasyrider]

OK I'm about to pull my hair out on this one. I've got a socket created that sends a network stream of data from a listview to an open port.

It works great!! I'm getting ACK's back from the server with no problem. I can even send multiple messages at a time. HOWEVER...

If I highlight one item and send it... then highlight another item immediately afterwards and send it... I get a connection refused.

If I send one item, wait about 7-8 seconds... then send another one... I'm fine.

Please review my code and tell me where I'm going wrong!! Thanks in advance!!

Private Sub btnSend_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSend.Click

        Dim ListViewSelect As ListView.SelectedListViewItemCollection = Me.ListView1.SelectedItems
        Dim item As ListViewItem
        Dim selecteditem As String
        Dim selecteditemhex As String = Chr(11)
        Dim SelectedCount As String
        Dim tcpClient As New System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient


        Try
            tcpClient.Connect("10.1.1.94", 8444)
            'tcpClient.Connect("127.0.0.1", 8444)
        Catch ex As Exception
            MessageBox.Show(Err.Description)
        End Try
        SelectedCount = ListViewSelect.Count()

        Select Case SelectedCount
            Case 0
                MessageBox.Show("Please select 1 item", "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error)
            Case Is > 0
                For Each item In ListViewSelect

                    selecteditem = selecteditemhex + LTrim(item.SubItems(4).Text)

                    Dim networkStream As NetworkStream = tcpClient.GetStream

                    If networkStream.CanWrite And networkStream.CanRead Then
                        Dim sendBytes As [Byte]() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(selecteditem)
                        networkStream.Write(sendBytes, 0, sendBytes.Length)
                        Dim bytes(tcpClient.ReceiveBufferSize) As Byte
                        networkStream.Read(bytes, 0, CInt(tcpClient.ReceiveBufferSize))
                        Dim returndata As String = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes)
                        MessageBox.Show("Host returned: " + returndata)
                    Else
                        If Not networkStream.CanRead Then
                            MessageBox.Show("cannot write data to this stream")
                            tcpClient.Close()
                        Else
                            If Not networkStream.CanWrite Then
                                MessageBox.Show("cannot read data from this stream")
                                tcpClient.Close()

                            End If
                        End If
                    End If
                Next

        End Select
        btnSend.Text = "Sent"
        tcpClient.GetStream.Close()
        'tcpClient.Close()
    End Sub