speed up app?

The thing is, I have a while loop going on in order to check for incoming data and it can slow down the application a fair amount

Is there a better way to check for incoming data without the need for a while loop going on continuesly?

void Recieve() { while (!this.readData &&this.ns.CanRead) { if(this.ns.DataAvailable) { byte[] incomingData =newbyte[64]; int theData = ns.Read(incomingData, 0, incomingData.Length); this.HandleIncomingData(incomingData); this.readData =false; } } }

This method is running on a seperate thread and makes no difference when not running it on a seperate thread.

the "HandleIncomingData" basically checks for the incoming byte and I do actions according to it.
Wierd thing is, when the data I want has been recieved, it doesnt do anything apart from locking up the application (no exceptions)
however if i set a breakpoint and debug the application, everything is fine and does what I want it to do (display data)

So, 2 Q's.... 1 about performance and the 2nd is why it doesnt do what I tell it to do unless I hit a breakpoint and run it from there...

Any advice is much appreciated

[2710 byte] By [ahmedilyas] at [2007-12-16]