[RESOLVED] Including Controls in VB2008 ???

[d22552000]

Start by loading Visual Basic and creating a new standard exe application. Rename form1 to frmMain. To allow our chat application to communicate over the Internet, we need access to the Microsoft Winsock library. We can access this library in two ways. Firstly, by adding a reference to the library from the Project -> References menu option. Secondly, we can add the Microsoft Winsock ActiveX component into our application. The second way allows us to easily create an instantiation of the Winsock library in the form of a control, so we will use this method.

Click on the Projects menu, and then the Components menu item. Scroll down the list of available components and check the "Microsoft Winsock Control 6.0" option:

As you can see in my attachment.. there is no 'components' under 'project'.
So where do I go to include components?

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Ps. I know how nooby this question sounds.

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PPs. There is not even a WinSock control under either menu of the Add Reference screen, (.NET, COM). Is my version of MSVB just f*xed ?

[RobDog888]

Your networking tutorial is refering to the VB 6 version which is why you are not seeing the components menu item under projects. VB 6 and VB 2008 are totally different incompatible programming languages.