advice please

[GJP]

Hello.

I'm doing a computing course and thinking of designing a network management
program.

Basically, it would ping an IP address at a certain time and then wait for a
response, an action would then depend on if a repose is returned or not.

I have very limited knowledge of VB.net at the moment, but am being taught
it.

I'm thinking even though this may sound simple in theory, how hard would it
be to make this program (please remember i am a novice at vb)...

Thanks
G.

 

[Lucas Tam]

I'm thinking even though this may sound simple in theory, how hard
would it be to make this program (please remember i am a novice at
vb)...

Not too hard, as long you don't need to write the Ping code yourself.

 

[Tom Shelton]

Hello.

I'm doing a computing course and thinking of designing a network management
program.

Basically, it would ping an IP address at a certain time and then wait for a
response, an action would then depend on if a repose is returned or not.

I have very limited knowledge of VB.net at the moment, but am being taught
it.

I'm thinking even though this may sound simple in theory, how hard would it
be to make this program (please remember i am a novice at vb)...

Thanks
G.

Depends. As Lucas pointed out - if you don't have to write the ping
code, then it should be fairly straight forward. So, you might want to
A) look for ping code samples, and I believe I have seen a couple of
VB.NET solutions around, and I know for a fact that there are some C#
samples. B) look for a VB6 solution and convert it to .NET. C) buy a
3rd party component that provides Ping functionality.

Tom Shelton