Visual basic LAN chat

[Jooder492]

I am currently programming a LAN chat program for my senior project in high school. I am using visual basic 2008 to program in and I was wondering if anyone had any tutorials or sujestions that would help me along. I'm not totally new to this but I am new when it comes to sending stuff over the network. If anyone has any sujestions that would be great. Thanks

[dilettante]

Try a few searches here. The topic has been pretty much done to death in the VB6 forum, and I'd imagine the VB.Net forum as well. The CodeBank is probably littered with many examples too.

For LAN chat you have two basic options: TCP/IP and Windows Networking. Probably 99.9% of the examples and discussions will be about TCP/IP and that might be the way to go.

The raw communication is one topic, but a chat application brings up more: P2P vs. server-based, discovery (how does a client or peer find the server other peers), user interface issues, features (whisper/private channels, file transfers, text only or webcam images, etc.).

I'd suggest starting with a simple text-only server-centric approach. Plenty of examples of that here, and some discussion. Not much in the way of tutorials though.

[8086]

you sohuld use winsock control.
thanks

[Jooder492]

I was wanting to use winsock so if you can lead me to someplace that will teach me how that would be great

[dilettante]

Search for "chat" here.

[luciana07]

Search for "chat" here.

Seems that you forgot to insert link.

[Jooder492]

Seems that you forgot to insert link.

I think he was talking about searching here in this site. Just my guess lol