private string _ipAddress = "192.168.56.101"; private int _port = 9004; public string SendMessage() { TcpClient client = new TcpClient(_ipAddress, _port); NetworkStream test = client.GetStream(); byte[] byteToSend = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes("000102sdsadsa^"); test.Write(byteToSend, 0, byteToSend.Length); byte[] bytesToRead = new byte[client.ReceiveBufferSize]; int bytesRead = test.Read(bytesToRead, 0, client.ReceiveBufferSize); var getMessage = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytesToRead, 0, bytesRead); client.Close(); return getMessage; }