Some advice and tips please

[SlykFX]

Ive decided on a new project that I will be filling my summer with. However Ive not used VB.net before, nor have I attempted anything like this previously. I do have some VB6 knowledge amongst other languages of varying degrees, mainly scripting languages and unix scripting, but some windows applications programming aswell.

My aim is to create a direct messenger from client to client with no server interaction.

I know the theory for what I want to do, however I cant find any resources concerning applications connecting across networks. Ive find texts on connecting to remote databases, however, although this will be am eventual aspect to my project, my main problem is connecting to non-database applications on remote computers

my thoughts on doing this (client to client) is for my app to send the message at the target IP on a specified port. the app on the target client will be listening to this port for the incoming message.
obviously as I refine and improve my project a server app will be created to hold all the clients status/ip/listening port/etc. but initially for ease, this can be entered into the app either on start up initialisation or retrieved from a configuration file

is vb.net suitable for this project or would another language be better? I do have limited knowledge of c/c++

can someone point out some resources in which i can read up about topics concerning this please. any any hints/tips will be much appreciated

many thanks in advance

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[Custom24]

It sounds like something you could do with .net remoting, which is fully supported by VB.net

You could set up your app as both a client and server.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...-us/cpguide/html/cpconnetremotingoverview.asp

Mark