Chat Room

Hey all i'm kinda new to Vb but i'm ok at it. What i need to do is make a chat room i have searched around for days now and still haven't found exactly what i'm looking for most of them use winstock which is fine but what i need is like one big chat room that you don't have to type in your partners ip. In other words you just start the application/client and bam you type your nick name and then your in, i don't want the player to be allowed to start their own room. Anyways i don't know where to even start with this so a big direction would be great

Thanks in advance.

P.S. i'm using vb 2008

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Well this isn't for me but yeah the server will be through another computer but the thing is i see people using ips to connect to the chat or what not but don't ips change?

You'd need to learn how to use the Socket classes in .NET, search this forum for any of the following:
TcpListener, TcpClient, Sockets.

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Even though the IP's change i don't get why that would be trouble, are you only letting certain IP's connect?

No but if the server host ips change then no 1 could connect

I dont want the people that are joining to have to type in the ip.

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The issue of dynamic/static IP should be the least of your concerns this early in development. It can always be solved later with a static dns, provided by for instance no-ip.org.

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