Is it possible to convert between Socket and TcpClient objects?

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Neil C. Obremski picture Neil C. Obremski · Oct 15, 2008 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

Here's another C#/.NET question based merely on curiousity more than an immediate need ...

If you had a Socket instance and you wanted to wrap it in the higher-level TcpClient class, is that possible and how would you do it?

Conversely if you have an instance of TcpClient, is it possible to get the underlying Socket?

Answer

Jorge Ferreira picture Jorge Ferreira · Oct 15, 2008

If you had a Socket instance and you wanted to wrap it in the higher-level TcpClient class, is that possible and how would you do it?

Socket socket = ...;
TcpClient client = new TcpClient();
client.Client = socket;

Conversely if you have an instance of TcpClient, is it possible to get the underlying Socket?

Get the underlying Socket using TcpClient.Client property.

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