Hello,

I'm just recently moved up to .NET, and because in my old
networked applications I used the Winsock control which
vb.net doesnt support naturally, i dont want to use it
anymore. So, I was poking around in the standard objects
stuff, and i found that you can use the system objects
supports sockets. i got very excited about this, and then
i relized that it didnt provide support for listening to
see if you have a new message in the buffer... does
anyone know how to create it so that it works like the old
winsock control...

thanks in advance
matt

Hi Matt,

Don't know very much about the winsock control in vb 6, but can't you use it
as a com object using interop services? A bit 'non-managed', but you'd get
all the functionality you're used to in this fashion.

HTH,

Bernie Yaeger
"Matt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:008001c3be6a$293b5170$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I'm just recently moved up to .NET, and because in my old
> networked applications I used the Winsock control which
> vb.net doesnt support naturally, i dont want to use it
> anymore. So, I was poking around in the standard objects
> stuff, and i found that you can use the system objects
> supports sockets. i got very excited about this, and then
> i relized that it didnt provide support for listening to
> see if you have a new message in the buffer... does
> anyone know how to create it so that it works like the old
> winsock control...
>
> thanks in advance
> matt

Thats not really what Im after, I hated the winsock
control. So what I'm really asking is how to do
networking in VB.NET. I could use the winsock control,
but i'll only do that as a last resort because not many
computers actually have the DLL's and OCX's need to run
it...

matt
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Matt,
>
>Don't know very much about the winsock control in vb 6,
but can't you use it
>as a com object using interop services? A bit 'non-
managed', but you'd get
>all the functionality you're used to in this fashion.
>
>HTH,
>
>Bernie Yaeger
>"Matt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:008001c3be6a$293b5170$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm just recently moved up to .NET, and because in my
old
>> networked applications I used the Winsock control which
>> vb.net doesnt support naturally, i dont want to use it
>> anymore. So, I was poking around in the standard
objects
>> stuff, and i found that you can use the system objects
>> supports sockets. i got very excited about this, and
then
>> i relized that it didnt provide support for listening to
>> see if you have a new message in the buffer... does
>> anyone know how to create it so that it works like the
old
>> winsock control...
>>
>> thanks in advance
>> matt
>
>
>.
>

On 2003-12-09, Matt <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm just recently moved up to .NET, and because in my old
> networked applications I used the Winsock control which
> vb.net doesnt support naturally, i dont want to use it
> anymore. So, I was poking around in the standard objects
> stuff, and i found that you can use the system objects
> supports sockets. i got very excited about this, and then
> i relized that it didnt provide support for listening to
> see if you have a new message in the buffer... does
> anyone know how to create it so that it works like the old
> winsock control...
>
> thanks in advance
> matt

Basically, your wanting the events... Well, you basically can get that
using asyncronous sockets in .NET. A good staring point for information
on using sockets in .NET is here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...consockets.asp

--
Tom Shelton
MVP [Visual Basic]