how to send xml data over tcp/ip

[Newbie27]

Hi everyone. I am new to programming and trying to learn as I go however am struggling here and any assistance please I greatly appreciate.

I am trying to send hardcoded xml tags to a server that only received xml tags for processing and this is the code I have which is not working. Please help.
public void Connect(string serverIP, string message)
{
string output = "";

try
{
// Create a TcpClient.
// The client requires a TcpServer that is connected
// to the same address specified by the server andport
// combination.
Int32 port = 4566;
TcpClient client = new TcpClient(serve rIP, port);

// Translate the passed message into ASCII and store it as a byte array.
Byte[] data = new Byte[4000];
data = System.Text.Enc oding.UTF8.GetB ytes(message);

// Get a client stream for reading and writing.
NetworkStream stream = client.GetStrea m();

// Send the message to the connected TcpServer.
stream.Write(da ta, 0, data.Length);

// Buffer to store the response bytes.
data = new Byte[256];
// String to store the response ASCII representation.
String responseData = String.Empty;
// Read the first batch of the TcpServer response bytes.
Int32 bytes = stream.Read(dat a, 0, data.Length);
responseData = System.Text.Enc oding.ASCII.Get String(data, 0, bytes);
//output = "Received: " + responseData;
//Response.Write( output);

// Close everything.
client.Close();
stream.Close();

}
catch (ArgumentNullEx ception e)
{
output = "ArgumentNullEx ception: " + e;
//MessageBox.Show (output);
Response.Write( output);
}
catch (SocketExceptio n e)
{

output = "SocketExceptio n: " + e.ToString();
//MessageBox.Show (output);
Response.Write( output);
}
}

protected void Button1_Click(o bject sender, EventArgs e)
{
// In this code example, use a hard-coded
// IP address and message.

string serverIP = "localhost" ;
string message = "<NHServerMessa ge protocol_versio n=\"1.0\"><BASI C_REQUEST_INFO request_type=\" S\" request_id=\"-1\"/><DATA_LIST_NAM E value=\"names\"/><SEARCH_NAME SN=\"Bob\" GN=\"Anderson\"/></NHServerMessage >";
Connect(serverI P, message);


}

PLEASE HELP. THANKS A BUNCH!

[Newbie27]

Any Ideas, HELP PLEASE

[Plater]

Is UTF8 the correct encoding type? I have always used ASCII.
You might have to include the byte-order mark at the begining if that is true?(or does that only apply to UTF16?)

What does the server say?

[Newbie27]

it doesn't read the data at all doesn't do anything

Unable to read one byte in receiveTerminat edStringWithTim eout