Chat Room

[Hockeykid230]

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

[G3rmanpride21]

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[Hockeykid230]

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?

[Atheist]

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

[G3rmanpride21]

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[Hockeykid230]

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.

[G3rmanpride21]

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[Atheist]

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.

[G3rmanpride21]

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