I am attempting to convert a Parser/Buffer written by Joe in VB6 to C#, however I am having a few problems..:

VB6:
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Private Sub wsBNET_DataArrival(ByVal bytesTotal As Long)
    wsBNET.GetData s, 8
    If CBool(InStr(1, s, vbCrLf)) Then
        Dim Splt() As String, i As Integer
        Splt = Split(s, vbCrLf)
        For i = LBound(Splt) To UBound(Splt)
            If Not CStr(Splt(i)) = "" Then Call ParseBNET(CStr(Splt(i)))
        Next i
    Else
        If Not CStr(s) = "" Then Call ParseBNET(CStr(s))
    End If
End Sub
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My Attempt:
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            while (sck.Connected)
            {
                byte[] packetData;
                string[] strData;
                try
                {
                    packetData = Recieve(8);
                    strData = Convert.ToString(packetData);
                    if (strData[0].Contains(Environment.NewLine))
                    {
                        foreach (string s in strData)
                        {
                            string[] dataSplit = s.Split(Environment.NewLine);
                            for (int i = 0; i < dataSplit.Length; i++)
                            {
                                main.ParseDATA(dataSplit[i]);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        if (strData != null) { main.ParseDATA(strData); }
                    }
                }
                catch (SocketException)
                {
                }
            }
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You'll notice that if (strData[0].Contains(Environment.NewLine)) is merely a substiture, seeing as you can only preform the Contains operation on a string, not a string array (that would be one of my conversion issues). What my main question would probably be is... is all of this nesscary just to Parse some TEXT?

Why are you using a string array?

It occurred to me earlier, when I saw this, that you don't really need to be using something so high-level.  If I could suggest an alternative:

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        Socket s = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
        s.Connect("useast.battle.net", 6112);
        s.Send(new byte[] { 3 });
        NetworkStream ns = new NetworkStream(s);
        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ns, Encoding.ASCII);

        ThreadStart ts = delegate
        {
            string st = null;
            while (st = sr.ReadLine() && s.Connected)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(st);
            }
        };
        Thread td = new Thread(ts);
        td.Start();
        StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(ns, Encoding.ASCII);
        sw.WriteLine("username");
        sw.WriteLine("password");
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It should be pretty clear from that how to get a NetworkStream from your existing Socket object, and from that, a StreamReader and StreamWriter.  And, it does all the reading from the server in a background thread so that your UI isn't blocking from the pending I/O request.

:)

You have a slight error:

            while (st = sr.ReadLine() && s.Connected)

Should be:

while (s.Connected)
{
    st = sr.ReadLine();

otherwise you get a compile error, because operator && cannot be applied to string and bool.

Yeah, sorry, I confused StreamReader and IDataReader.  :)

Well, it's not working, my StreamReader pulls back "" then nothing else. Here's my coding:

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Threading;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.IO;

namespace SmartRecon
{
    class Connection
    {
        private Socket s = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
        private NetworkStream ns;
        private StreamReader sr;
        private StreamWriter sw;
        private frmMain main;
        private ThreadStart ts;
        private string user;

        public Connection(frmMain form)
        {
            main = form;
        }

        public void StartConnection(string Server, string Username, string Password)
        {
            user = Username;
            s.Connect(Server, 6112);
            ns = new NetworkStream(s);
            sr = new StreamReader(ns, Encoding.ASCII);
            sw = new StreamWriter(ns, Encoding.ASCII);
            ts = new ThreadStart(tStart);
            s.Send(new byte[] { 3 });
            Thread td = new Thread(ts);
            sw.WriteLine(Username);
            sw.WriteLine(Password);
            main.AddChat("Sending Username and Password...", Color.LightGreen);
            td.Start();
        }

        public void sText(string text)
        {
            sw.WriteLine(text);
            main.AddChat("<" + user + "> " + text, Color.LightBlue);
        }

        public void tStart()
        {
            string st = null;
            while (s.Connected)
            {
                st = sr.ReadLine();
                string[] stSplt = st.Split(' ');
                #region Parser
                switch (stSplt[1])
                {
                    case "NAME":
                        main.AddChat("Successfully logged on as: " + stSplt[2], Color.Green);
                        break;
                    case "CHANNEL":
                        main.AddChat("Joined Channel: ", Color.Yellow);
                        // do something else here.. " & GetString(sData) & ".")
                        // lblChannel.Caption = GetString(sData)
                        // lvChannel.ListItems.Clear
                        break;
                    case "USER":
                        //main.AddChat("User " + stSplt[2] + " has joined the channel, using " + stSplt[4] + ".", Color.DarkGreen);
                        main.AddUser(stSplt[2]);
                        //Call lvChannel.ListItems.Add(, , Splt(2))
                        break;
                    case "INFO":
                        main.AddChat(stSplt[2], Color.SteelBlue);
                        break;
                    case "ERROR":
                        main.AddChat(stSplt[2], Color.DarkRed);
                        break;
                    case "TALK":
                        main.AddChat("<" + stSplt[2] + "> " + stSplt[4], Color.White);
                        break;
                    case "JOIN":
                        string game = stSplt[4].Replace("[", ""); stSplt[4].Replace("]", "");
                        main.AddChat(stSplt[2] + " has joined the channel using " + game + ".", Color.DarkGreen);
                        main.AddUser(stSplt[2]);
                        break;
                    case "LEAVE":
                        main.AddChat(stSplt[2] + " has left the channel.", Color.Yellow);
                        main.RemUser(stSplt[2]);
                        break;
                }
                #endregion
            }
        }
    }
}
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I get my error at:
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                st = sr.ReadLine();
                string[] stSplt = st.Split(' ');
                #region Parser
                switch (stSplt[1]) -------
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It says my index is out of bounds, which doesn't make sense, as I had already sent the data, and i'm connected, so what am I doing wrong here >.<...

It should be stSplit[0] not [1]
The first thing you are getting is "Username:" If i recall correctly. Which dosen't have a space in it, hence Index out fo bounds.
~Hdx

We found out the problem.  Apparently you need to call Flush() on StreamWriter after you write with it.

Here's the complete code to what I wrote this morning:

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Threading;

namespace BncsCHAT
{
    class Program
    {
        private static Socket s_sck;
        private static NetworkStream s_ns;
        private static StreamReader s_sr;
        private static StreamWriter s_sw;

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Connect to which server?");
            string server = Console.ReadLine();
            IPHostEntry iphe = Dns.Resolve(server);
            s_sck = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
            s_sck.Connect(iphe.AddressList[0], 6112);
            Console.WriteLine("Connected!");

            s_sck.Send(new byte[] { 3 });
            s_ns = new NetworkStream(s_sck);
            s_sr = new StreamReader(s_ns, Encoding.ASCII);
            s_sw = new StreamWriter(s_ns, Encoding.ASCII);

            Thread td = new Thread(ListenerThread);
            td.Start();

            string input = string.Empty;
            while (StringComparer.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase.Compare(input, "/quit") != 0)
            {
                input = Console.ReadLine();
                s_sw.WriteLine(input);
                s_sw.Flush();
            }

            Console.WriteLine("Disconnecting...");
            s_sck.Disconnect(false);
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        private static void ListenerThread()
        {
            while (s_sck.Connected)
            {
                string fromServer = s_sr.ReadLine();
                DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
                Console.WriteLine("[{0:d2}:{1:d2}:{2:d2}] {3}", dt.Hour, dt.Minute, dt.Second, fromServer);
            }
        }
    }
}
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Once finished I think i'll post my entire code on here in the C# section, it's a nice place for C# programmers to start.