Visual Basic 2008 Exp. Edt. Help, WinSock COM Components Missing...

Question

WTF is WinSock, in COM Components, When you right click Toolbox and choose, choose Items, Win Sock is not in the .NET Components, COM Components, nor is it in, WPF Components, Where is it, Sure its in VB 6, but not in, MS VB 2008 Exp. Edt., What Gives...?

Wheres WinSock Components, in Microsofts Visual Basic 2008 Exp. Edt...

Thanx...

Answer 1

go to this link:

http://gpwiki.org/index.php/VBNET:Socket...

Answer 2

Unlike in VB6, the Winsock is not a control in VB.NET. To use Winsock, add a reference to your project to the System.Net namespace.

For a server app you then use the System.Net.TcpListener class and for client apps you use the System.Net.TcpClient class.