started working o nstuff yay

server/Program.cs

@@ -1,2 +1,44 @@
-// See https://aka.ms/new-console-template for more information
-Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
+using System;
+using System.Net;
+using System.Net.Sockets;
+
+namespace Server;
+
+public class Program
+{
+    static void Main(string[] args)
+    {
+        int port = 12345;
+        TcpListener server = new(IPAddress.Parse("0.0.0.0"), port);
+        try {
+            server.Start();
+            byte[] buffer = new byte[256];
+
+            while(true) {
+                // Currently, every time it gets a block, it will simply send it back but ToUpper
+                using TcpClient client = server.AcceptTcpClient();
+                Console.WriteLine("Got a client!");
+
+                var stream = client.GetStream();
+                int readLen;
+                while((readLen = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) != 0) {
+                    // for now, lets just read it as an ascii string
+                    string input = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer, 0, readLen); 
+                    Console.WriteLine($"Got block: {input}");
+
+                    byte[] ret = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(input.ToUpper());
+                    stream.Write(ret, 0, ret.Length);
+                }
+
+
+            }
+        }
+        catch(Exception ex) {
+            Console.WriteLine($"Server error: {ex.Message}");
+            Console.WriteLine("Trace: " + ex.StackTrace);
+        }
+        finally {
+            server.Stop();
+        }
+    }
+}

server/server.csproj

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
     <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
-    <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
+    <ImplicitUsings>disable</ImplicitUsings>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
   </PropertyGroup>