How do you wait for a Network Stream to have data to read?

Question

I have a worker thread in my application that is responsible for three different things. Requests for two of the jobs turn up in Queues that I have written, the other job is

Answer 1

I discovered, that if you call NetworkStream.Read with size = 0, it will actually block:

networkstream.Read(buffer, 0, 0);

The documentation is not clear about this, but for me it worked.