Ok before anyone redirects me to a site about Winsock, just think of me like your 8 year old brother who has just learnt how to create his first visual basic program.   So now he want sot make a chat program using winsock, but he has checked all the sites and they say to him add a winsock to your form then input this code and u have a chat program.  This kid is like ****, i thought this tutorial was for beginners how do i add this winsock to the form so he can make his simple chat program??.

If someone could give a detailed discription of how i would start making a simple chat program it would be much appreciated.

Thx for any positive comments.

  

Hi 8RaM.
I have coded a simple client/server winsock application for you.
Start the server, then the client.
Enter your messgae on the client and click send. You can send messages to/from the server and client.

Important point to note is that the WinSock control is a control-array. The new items are added on the server instance of the form on a connectionrequest event.

This code is demonstrated in the MSDN.

For information only, I have added a listbox of connected clients to the form. You could extend this to allow direction of the messgaes from the server to the client.

Another note would be that this sample supports multiple connections to a single server, however, the clients cannot speak to each other.
Hope this helps as a starter.
Kieron

BTW. To add a winsock, select "Add Component" from the project menu, choose Microsoft Winsock Control and drop it on your form.
Cheers


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thanks a lot mate, i will take a look at it later tonight.