Binary stream '0' does not contain a valid BinaryHeader. Occurs randomly

Question

I\'m working on c# windows service that handles firebird database requests. My problem occurs at random moments (sometimes after 5 minutes, sometimes after just 4 calls to d

Answer 1

I have found the bug. The code above works fine, but care for encoding in some cases(!), so feel free to use it. The problem laying in another part of a program, where I mistyped and send 4 bytes BUT the client app was told to receive 8, so in most cases it filled it in with zeros, but sometimes it got it from next pack of data.

It was @Marc Gravell and his blog that made me look over and over again to eventually find the source.

Answer 2

If you are using above deserializing methods & also call them while getting stream from clientstream OR other streams.... skip it. try to use directly those streams with formatter. Like Below :

NetworkStream clientStream = client.GetStream();
Object src = (Object)formatter.Deserialize(clientStream);