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Send BinData Contents over a Socket

Demonstrates Socket.SendBd, which sends bytes from a BinData beginning at an offset. A numBytes of 0 sends from the offset through the end of the data.

Background. The BinData receive methods accumulate raw bytes in a BinData object. A single receive returns only what is currently available, whereas the counted receive waits for an exact number of bytes.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

Dim socket As New Chilkat.Socket

'  Connect to the server using TLS.
Dim bTls As Boolean = True
Dim maxWaitMs As Integer = 5000
success = socket.Connect("example.com",5000,bTls,maxWaitMs)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Place some bytes into a BinData to be sent.
Dim bd As New Chilkat.BinData
bd.AppendString("message payload","utf-8")

'  Send bytes from the BinData starting at the given offset.  A numBytes of 0 sends from the offset
'  through the end of the data.
success = socket.SendBd(bd,0,0)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.WriteLine("Sent " & bd.NumBytes & " bytes.")