my winsock component is broken?

[Axxxxxxxxx17]

hello, while trying to follow a tutorial involving sockets I found out that my winsock component has something wrong with it

what should be:

Public ReadOnly Property State() As MSWinsockLib.StateConstants()

is instead:

Public ReadOnly Property State() As Short

and this is presenting all sorts of problems such as not being able to get the state of the socket I am working with

so can anyone post a link to a working winsock component, tell me how to fix mine, or embarrass me by telling me im doing something wrong and that the winsock component is fine

[Nightwalker83]

Did you manually type the code in to the program? If so maybe typed it incorrectly.

[Axxxxxxxxx17]

No I noticed it when I was trying to get the state of my socket, I saw it threw an error for some reason and then when i looked at the intellisense I saw what I described in my first post

for instance when I type:

If sock.State = sckConnected

with "sock" being my socket it comes back with an error

[Nightwalker83]

Could you upload the source code? Someone will test it to see if they receive the same errors.

[Axxxxxxxxx17]

Never mind I found the solution to my problem, I was supposed to have:
StateConstants.sckListening
instead of just sckListening

But also, while trying to fix the problem myself I have discovered there is an inbuilt socket class at system.net.sockets but before I found this out I have been using the MSWinsockLib.dll which some people are saying is just for VB6

so could anyone tell me which is better/which I should be using?