Quick and dirty tool for sending UDP packets

While I was playing with my UDPListener I needed a small tool which could send some UDP packets to a certain hostname and port. That's why I wrote a console application which uses an UdpClient to send some UDP packets. It's quick and dirty, but it serves the cause.

   1:  namespace UdpSender

   2:  {

   3:      class Program

   4:      {

   5:          //Constants

   6:          private const string HOSTNAME = "LocalHost";

   7:          private const int PORT = 800;

   8:          private const int TIMES = 5;

   9:          private const string MESSAGE = "This is a TestMessage";

  10:          private const int SLEEP = 50;

  11:   

  12:          static void Main(string[] args)

  13:          {

  14:              using (UdpClient client = new UdpClient())

  15:              {

  16:                  //Connect

  17:                  client.Connect(HOSTNAME, PORT);

  18:                  Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Connected to {0}:{1}.", HOSTNAME, PORT));

  19:                  Console.WriteLine("Start sending packets..");

  20:   

  21:                  //Send packets

  22:                  int timesSent = 0;

  23:                  while (timesSent < TIMES)

  24:                  {

  25:                      timesSent++;

  26:   

  27:                      //Convert the message to a Byte array

  28:                      Byte[] mess = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(MESSAGE);

  29:   

  30:                      //Send the message

  31:                      client.Send(mess, mess.Count());

  32:   

  33:                      Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Message {0} sent..", timesSent));

  34:                      //Sleep for a while

  35:                      Thread.Sleep(SLEEP);

  36:                  }

  37:   

  38:                  //Close the client

  39:                  client.Close();

  40:              }

  41:   

  42:              Console.WriteLine("Finished sending packets..");

  43:              Console.ReadLine();

  44:          }

  45:      }

  46:  }

You can download the source here.