using like "select" function

[niros]

Hi, I am familiar with the select function from c++.

I wanted to know if someone knows a way to listen to a socket for example with a something like the select function (that has a timeout as well).

I need to receive unknown sized data from a socket in a non-blocking way , Therefore I am not sure that using "Socket.BeginReceive" is the best solution for me, because I will want to receive each time one byte because I don�t know the data size, which results alot of callbacks.

I don�t want to use "Socket.Receive" because it�s a blocking function and then in case that I will want to cancel the working thread it will be a problem.

Is there a way to do something like "select" that blocks for a requested time, or until data received?

Does someone have some other solution to recommend me? Thanks!

[mhildner]

Have you tried setting the timeout for receiving?

//Receive operations will timeout if not received within 1000 milliseconds.
s.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Socket, SocketOptionName.ReceiveTimeout, 1000);

Note, I haven't tried it, as I usually use asynchronous methods, but it should block for one second.