Socket Help.

[jjjax0330]

We are going to be starting a new project that will need to have a socket communication between their system which will be sending data to a tcp port and they tell us that we'll need to have some type of socket connection to read their data and load our sql server then write data back to either the same or another socket that they will be listening on. We have visual studio 2005 and would like to write this in vb.net. I've found some examples of some older versions of vb but can't seem to find a good one in .net because from what I see, Microsoft has changed how they are doing this in the newer version. Also, since we are going to be going to an sql 2000 or 2005 server, is there a better way to do this other than using vb? Thanks, Joe

 

[chrissie1]

I think if you are goin low-levelish like this then both systems are better of using the same language so you can serialize objects. Otherwise I would recommend webservices which are better suited for intelanguage communication. But this all depends on how they will be sending the information and such.

All the above demands for some serious reading and research and I think it will be difficult for us to say what is best with the information you have given us.



Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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[Borvik]

This will help take the reading and research down a notch.

Codeproject has an excellent control that mimics the Winsock control from VB6, making it simple to use sockets again.

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/winsock2005.asp

 

[jjjax0330]

Thanks, that looks like a great start. Joe