Anyone used Socketwrench?

[cj]

My company just purchased SocketTools Visual Edition from Catalyst with
the intent that I would use the included Socketwrench tool to create a
server application to receive and respond to requests on a port.

I'm lost. I've never done this before. I understand the concepts of
ports etc but don't know what methods and properties to set to do this.
The examples provided by Catalyst are way too complicated for me at
this point. I would love to see a very short section of code w/o any
error checking or fancy coding that I could paste in the form load event
that would listen on port 5884 and just throw up a msgbox when it hears
something. Can anyone give me any assistance?

I'm not using the free socketwrench. I understand it is different. I'm
using the version in SocketTools Visual Edition.

Another primary concern is how to send something to port 5884 to see if
the program is working.

 

[Ken Halter]

My company just purchased SocketTools Visual Edition from Catalyst with
the intent that I would use the included Socketwrench tool to create a
server application to receive and respond to requests on a port.

I'm lost. I've never done this before. I understand the concepts of
ports etc but don't know what methods and properties to set to do this.
The examples provided by Catalyst are way too complicated for me at this
point. I would love to see a very short section of code w/o any error
checking or fancy coding that I could paste in the form load event that
would listen on port 5884 and just throw up a msgbox when it hears
something. Can anyone give me any assistance?

I'm not using the free socketwrench. I understand it is different. I'm
using the version in SocketTools Visual Edition.

Another primary concern is how to send something to port 5884 to see if
the program is working.

I use it... not in dotNet though <g>

Go here.... click on the search button and enter 'Tutorial' (no quotes). It
should open to a "bare bones" project (in VB6 but easy to convert)
http://www.catalyst.com/support/help/wrench4/index.html

Here's their general TCP-IP tutorial.
http://www.catalyst.com/products/socketwrench/tutorial/index.html

 

[cj]

I like the example and almost understand it but I disagree with the
"easy to convert part" of you message. .Net does not support control
arrays so I'm at a roadblock pretty quick.

Can you point me to a likewise simple example of how to do that in .Net?

 

[Peter Huang [MSFT]]

Hi

Since the tool is developped by Catalyst.
It would better to check with Catalyst Technique support.
http://www.catalyst.com/support/index.html

Thanks for your understanding!

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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[cj]

I already am, but sometimes it's best to talk to someone who's using it
but not living it, if you now what I mean. They're more likely to
understand where I'm coming from and thus their explanations might be
easier for me to understand.