Hi everyone, this is my first post, figured i would start off by saying HI, and see if someone can guide me in the right direction. I'm coming into VB2005 from VB6 so im used to winsock controls, and i notice they arent there in vb2005 (.net) so im assuming theres another way we handle that... What i need to do is the following..

1. Client app login attempt goes through winsock to server app.
2. server app takes login information and checks it against database on server
3. if credentials are good, then login make connection
3a. im wanting to use the Username as the "winsock array index"
4. if its not good login credentials send a message back to client app to stop right there and wait for better credentials.

How can i go about doing this with 2005. in vb6 it was pretty easy but i was using 2 seperate servers 1 for login 1 for serverside, now everything is on 1 server. Thanks!