Hii,

I know there's lots of tutorials and dozens of free chat for download, but I just wanna know some basics about making a chat app before I start myself.

I have noticed that almost all VB chat use winsock and as far as I can see that means you need a server and a client chat. Isn't there a way around this. I'm developing a small text based game, just for the kick of it and I don't really like the idea of having a chat server.

So should I save the chat in a txt file on a server I've access to and won't that limit the number of people being able to chat at once.

ThanX