How reliable is .NET TCP protocol?

Question

I\'m quite new to C# so please bear with me. I\'m writing a relatively simple client server application in C# .NET 4.0. I am using TCP protocol, TCPListener and TCPClient to

Answer 1

If you really need reliability AND network transport, why not use Message Queues? They have transactional guarantee (about as strong as the discipline of the developers working with it, but not stronger than that!)

It's like all your traffic with database-server-type safety (and ditto performance). I think you can easily configure .NET Remoting to use an MSMQ channel.

I've personally never done that, but I've used message queuing in general.