I met this guy tonight at a bookstore in the VB.Net book section, we started chatting and I told him I was having problems figuring out how to detect a closed socket on a server after a client disconnects. He gave me this URL, and well after visiting the site, I feel obligated to pass it on, there is a Socket zip file made by Carl Franklin (book writer and course teacher) with some of the best found socket code examples you will find to date dealing with sockets in vb.Net. The 5 demo programs in this file have answered every socket question I have been asking about for 2 weeks now. Anyways enough rambling, the site is HERE and the file is SocketsAndP2P.Zip ..

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