How to send/receive a picture file to server using Base64?

i am doing a project tat required me to send/receive a picture file to the server (tomcat) and below is my codes. This code can allow me to send the picture thru the xml and create another xml package. But when i tried sending to my fren's server, i can't send thru, please help me with it...!!

thanks!!

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Imports System.Net.Sockets
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml.XmlDocument
'Imports MSWinsockLib
Imports System.Net.SocketAddress
'Imports System.Text.Encoding
Imports System.Xml.XmlReader
Imports System.Xml



Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
' Dim WithEvents mywinsock As New Winsock
'Dim sc As TcpClient
Dim tcpClient As New System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient
'Dim f1 As New SocketConnection
'Dim tl As TcpListener


Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim networkStream As NetworkStream = tcpClient.GetStream()
Dim sendBytes As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("hello")




Dim Doc As New XmlDocument
Doc.Load("orders.xml")

Dim LogoNode As XmlNode
LogoNode = Doc.CreateElement("Logo")

Dim fs As New FileStream("logo.bmp", FileMode.Open)
Dim LogoBytes(Convert.ToInt32(fs.Length)) As Byte
fs.Read(LogoBytes, 0, LogoBytes.Length)

Dim EncodedText As String = Convert.ToBase64String(LogoBytes)
LogoNode.AppendChild(Doc.CreateTextNode(EncodedText))

Doc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes(0).AppendChild(LogoNode)

Doc.Save("orders_pic.xml")

Console.WriteLine("File Successfully 'orders_pic.xml' written.")
Console.ReadLine()

Dim myStr As String = "logo.bmp"




End Sub









Public Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'ock.RemoteHost = TextBox1.Text
'mywinsock.RemotePort = 6969]
'mywinsock.RemoteHost() = "152.226.131.226"
'mywinsock.RemotePort = 6969
'mywinsock.Connect()
'Dim ie As New Net.IPEndPoint(Net.IPAddress.Parse("152.226.131.226"), 6969)
'sc = New TcpClient("152.226.131.226", 6970)

tcpClient.Connect("152.226.136.173", 6969)

' Dim Doc As New XmlDocument
'Doc.Load("orders.xml")
'MonthCalendar1.MinDate = DateTime.Today
'MonthCalendar1.MaxDate = Now.AddDays(3)



End Sub

Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click



'Dim b As New IO.StreamReader(sc.GetStream)

Dim networkStream As NetworkStream = tcpClient.GetStream()
Dim bytes(tcpClient.ReceiveBufferSize) As Byte
' networkStream.Write(
'System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("abc")
networkStream.Read(bytes, 0, CInt(tcpClient.ReceiveBufferSize))
Dim returndata As String = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes)
TextBox2.Text = returndata
End Sub
Private Sub MonthCalendar1_DateChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DateRangeEventArgs) Handles MonthCalendar1.DateChanged
MsgBox("allan here")
End Sub
End Class


Best Regards

Allan