Replacement of Winsock in Visual Basic 6?

Hello Microsoft.

Is there anyway to make any replacement of the Winsock Protocol in Visual Basic 6

Replacement of Winsock in Visual Basic 6?

Trev
Yes, but I have DMZ enabled, so my IP should be unprotected and static all time.
dschon

I find that the WebRequest class and associated System.Net classes are great.

I would recomend that you learn to use the Object Browser.

The ObjectBrowser is your friend!!!!!
Sivaji Srinivas Narra
Though now I could use some help on handling events and creating such socket ;)

deeptranz03

Mathy wrote:

Mathy wrote:

I didn't actually understand any of those posts, since I want to be just as fimiliar to Sockets here as WinSockets in VB6. I don't understand the events of it or anything, or even how to place the socket on a form. Also, I want to know what all that DNS and all that stuff is, and why it's needed. Yeah actually, I need a basic guide covering all basics for sockets for a newbie :P

Nevermind, I think I got the hang of it.

However, I would like to know how to receive the internet IP of the computer you're on, in order to know what IP to listen to. I guess 127.0.0.1 isn't good enough :D

This is what I've got so far. Now, I would like the new socket I made to simply listen to the IP of the computer. Not the localhost IP.

Dim Socket As Net.Sockets.Socket

Socket = New Net.Sockets.Socket(Net.Sockets.AddressFamily.InterNetwork, Net.Sockets.SocketType.Stream, Net.Sockets.ProtocolType.Tcp)

bettoni

Mathy wrote:
Though now I could use some help on handling events and creating such socket ;)
I still need help on this...
Izak

Overall what do you want your program to do
CARABAS
are you behind a router
none0

dkocur2

Mathy wrote:

I didn't actually understand any of those posts, since I want to be just as fimiliar to Sockets here as WinSockets in VB6. I don't understand the events of it or anything, or even how to place the socket on a form. Also, I want to know what all that DNS and all that stuff is, and why it's needed. Yeah actually, I need a basic guide covering all basics for sockets for a newbie :P

Nevermind, I think I got the hang of it.

However, I would like to know how to receive the internet IP of the computer you're on, in order to know what IP to listen to. I guess 127.0.0.1 isn't good enough :D

SlightlySlow
TBH m8 I gave up on it, I was trying to use the Stream class and TcpClient which are fairly close in functionality to WinSock but had so many problems that I gave up, I was trying to talk to a custom tcp server running on linux, in the end I took the easy route and re-wrote my server to use port 80 and send http data out and just used the webclient class to do a really basic page grab... I was using the Microsoft examples for streams etc but they only work if you are grabbing a single data packet.... Could be my interpretation of their example of course...

Search for streams and tcpclient in the MSDN library, there are plenty of examples... good luck :)
Youz
Helped me a lot. Indeed, Object Browser is just not my new friend, it's my hero! Thanks!
Val Savvateev

I've been through fifty way to get DNS records today. None of them work for al of the kinds of records I want.

BUT....For a ireally long tome I haven't known how to do a POST to a web page button and programmatical push it. Today I sat down and wrote and it worked that first time every time. I'm sending information to a page as I do a post to and the stream comes back the first time. I'm absolutely amazed. This product works so well!!!!
ryan_scanner
It's a general chat. Like kick people, whatever.
dpwoody

I didn't actually understand any of those posts, since I want to be just as fimiliar to Sockets here as WinSockets in VB6. I don't understand the events of it or anything, or even how to place the socket on a form. Also, I want to know what all that DNS and all that stuff is, and why it's needed. Yeah actually, I need a basic guide covering all basics for sockets for a newbie :P
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