Added a socket client

Server Dashboard Socket/Protocol/XmlMessageProtocol.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Xml;
+using System.Xml.Linq;
+using System.Xml.Serialization;
+
+namespace Server_Dashboard_Socket {
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Xml serialize class
+    /// </summary>
+    public class XmlMessageProtocol : Protocol<XDocument> {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Decodes the message from byte[] to XDocument
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="message">The message to decode</param>
+        /// <returns>Message as XDocument</returns>
+        protected override XDocument Decode(byte[] message) {
+            //Reads the data as utf8 string
+            var xmlData = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(message);
+            //Creates a new reader
+            var xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(xmlData), new XmlReaderSettings { DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Ignore });
+            //Decodes the data to XDocument format
+            return XDocument.Load(xmlReader);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Encode the XDocument to byte[]
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <typeparam name="T">Message type e.g. object or string</typeparam>
+        /// <param name="message">The message to encode</param>
+        /// <returns>Message as byte[]</returns>
+        protected override byte[] EncodeBody<T>(T message) {
+            //new string builder
+            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+            //New string writer with the string builder
+            StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb);
+            //new xml serializer with the same type as the message
+            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
+            //Serialize the message to a regular string
+            xs.Serialize(sw, message);
+            //Return as UTF8 encoded byte array
+            return Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sb.ToString());
+        }
+    }
+}