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  On 18/03/2012 at 19:01, togerland said:
Microsoft Visual Studio 11? I know I use to use it when I use to program in vb6 but I am not sure if this technology is considered out of date now?

Look over System.Net.Sockets in MSDN, socket handling is covered very nicely in the platform. Or choose from plenty of third party alternatives, whatever fits your needs.

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  On 18/03/2012 at 19:28, MFH said:
I find it quite funny that everyone here thinks you must be programming in .NET?

Just a guess since he's coming from a VB6 and ActiveX background, doesn't have much of a choice. There hasn't been an unmanaged version of VB since then, and if he was using VC in the past there's a bajillion C++ libraries already out there.

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