How do can I message another box in a VB app?

[hdougl1]

I have an application that creates orders in the office. I need to send that order to be filled to the warehouse PC on the LAN within the application. We currently send third party messages such as win pop or email or phone as notifications. My bandwith is very limited.
Thanks
Henry

 

[TRYP]

use winsock

tryp

 

[strongm]

Or consider mailslotes or named pipes

 

[WilMead]

I'm voting Email -- Advantage, Active delivery vehicle during application development and built in fail over.

Something XML based also comes to mind. It has the advantage that it allows you to want to deversify your application. Good training there too a lot can be leveraged into future projects.

Winsock has the advantage in that it might be the easiest to roll out fast.

Wil Mead
wmead@optonline.net

 

[hdougl1]

Thanks guys I'm going to research winsock.

 

[dilettante]

This is what Queued Components are for, but that's another whole area to learn if you aren't using 'em.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cossdk/htm/pgservices_queuedcomponents_2vhv.asp