Hello fellow coders,
I have been a web developer for a number of years now and I am making the move over to form based applications. I am trying to do what I believe should be relatively simple, yet I have no idea where to start.

At home I have a machine that family members tend to use P2P programs, which causes my online gaming to suffer with glitches.

I want to create a server and client program.
where the client app (on my laptop) consists of only one button, when the button is pressed I want the server app (my Desktop) to kill the P2P program.

I already know how to kill/start the application in question.

I have previously done something similar but I had used winsock (not in VS2010) and was a long time ago.

So if possible I require help with the following.

1) Sending a value/string from the client app
2) receiving the value/string on the server app

I was told to look into the system.net.sockets namespace, but I haven't found anything on the web or here that isn't a full project / over-engineered "Basic Tutorial" that helps to break this down


Any help is appreciated.