Good Book?

[chad101]

I have spent the last 1 year and a half learning C++. I have built a decent foundation for this language and now I’m learning Visual Basic. So far, Visual Basic has been a walk in the park. With a few exceptions to pointers and multiple inheritance I have really enjoyed leaning this language. My problem is and this even applies to C++, is I cannot find any good books on network programming. I have looked online, asked my teachers, and I cannot find anything halfway decent. I want something that explains winsock programming for VB.net since VB is what we are currently studying in school. I would like to design a chat client for yahoo, this has been a personal goal of mine for the past 2 years. Anyone have any suggestions on books or online tutorials?

Thanks, Chad

[d3gerald]

welcome to vbforums,

first of all, if youre looking for a book, you can go to any bookstore at your place(joke only), basically, many books are available at bookstores but none of them would give what you want at once. there are a lot of members of this forum you can lean on and ask for help from. if you have some questions in mind with regards to vb. you can ask it here in this forum or post a new thread regarding a new topic you want to talk about. but before posting any new thread, try to search the forums first by puuling down the search menu and typing in your topic identifier

[kaihirst]

Hi.

Id depends on what youre looking for with regards to netowrking.

The general concencus is TCP/IP netowkring, and in that case a good classic books is

Networking with Microsoft TCP/IP
Certified Administrators guide
Drew Heywood & Rob Scrimger

Its a hardbgack, new riders book, adn a clasic.

If youre looking at something more specialised, look any books by Cisco, Novell (although novell netware is dated)

But if its an all round tutorial and guide to all things networking, the Microsoft book ive detailed here will be the solution for you...

Hope this helps

Kai

[chad101]

Thank you both for the response I have searched a little bit and found some usful topics. One question: I use VB.net; on the older VB v6.0 when someone wanted to use a winsock they simply dragged the winsock icon from the toolbar onto the form. But in vb.net i do not see this componet anywhere in the toolbar

I know it's a rather silly question, but is this componet named something else in vb.net?

[Rob123]

Press ctrl - T, then scroll down and tick 'Microsoft Winsock Control'