Send StringBuilder Contents over a Socket

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Demonstrates Socket.SendSb, which encodes the contents of a StringBuilder using StringCharset and sends the resulting bytes.

Background. Text send and receive operations encode and decode bytes using the StringCharset property. For plain ASCII or UTF-8 protocols, setting StringCharset to utf-8 is a safe default.

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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";

//  Build the text to send in a StringBuilder, then send its contents.
Chilkat.StringBuilder sb = new Chilkat.StringBuilder();
sb.Append("SET temperature 21\r\n");

success = socket.SendSb(sb);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Message sent.");