'Declaration
 
Public Overloads Function Receive( _
   ByVal buffer() As Byte _
) As Datagram

'Usage
 
Dim instance As UdpBase
Dim buffer() As Byte
Dim value As Datagram
 
value = instance.Receive(buffer)

public Datagram Receive( 
   byte[] buffer
)

public: Datagram* Receive( 
   byte[]* buffer
) 

public:
Datagram^ Receive( 
   array<byte>^ buffer
) 

Parameters

buffer

A byte array to be filled with the data received.

Return Value

Use the Receive method to receive a datagram into buffer. This method also returns a Datagram object encapsulating the datagram received. Segment.Buffer contains the actual datagram data (equivalent to buffer). Datagram.Origin contains the endpoint of the remote host from which the datagram was sent.

A UDP datagram provides little functionality over an IP datagram, adding a port number field (allows demultiplexing on the receiving host) and a checksum field (provides basic error handling). Unlike TCP, UDP datagrams are sent as a unit. If Send is called 3 times to send 3 datagrams to a host, the receiving host will have to call Receive 3 times. Also, the size of each datagram sent will equal the size of each datagram received by the receiving host. In addition, since UDP is a connectionless protocol, datagrams sent to the host are not guaranteed to be delivered. Therefore, any required error checking (outside of UDP's checksum implementation) will have to be done by the application-layer protocol.

Reference

UdpBase Class
UdpBase Members
Overload List