Receive a Bounded String from a Socket

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Demonstrates Socket.ReceiveStringMaxN, which receives and decodes text like ReceiveString but reads at most a given number of input bytes.

bool success = false;

Chilkat.Socket socket = new Chilkat.Socket();

//  Connect to the server using TLS.  The 3rd argument enables the TLS handshake after the TCP
//  connection succeeds; the 4th is the maximum time to wait, in milliseconds.
bool bTls = true;
int maxWaitMs = 5000;
success = socket.Connect("example.com",5000,bTls,maxWaitMs);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  StringCharset controls the character encoding used when sending and receiving text.
socket.StringCharset = "utf-8";
//  Send a request using a simple application-defined text protocol in which each message ends with a
//  CRLF.
string command = "STATUS\r\n";
success = socket.SendString(command);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Receive and decode text like ReceiveString, but read at most the given number of input bytes.
//  The limit is measured in bytes, not Unicode characters.
string firstChunk = socket.ReceiveStringMaxN(64);
if (socket.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine(firstChunk);