Winsock Control

[ledger]

Please Help!

I have created a client program in VB6 SP3 which scans the local computer for all .EXE and .COM files on all fixed disks and stores them in an array. I also get disk sizes, memory, Windows version, IP Number etc.

Using the winsock control(TCP/IP) on a server program I listen for the client to send this information as one continous string. Then write the data into an Access database. As a test I write it into a list box to check the data.

The problem is that the string arrives at the server in a different order than it was sent with some data missing.

If I limit the file list to 200 files then it works perfectly, but even if I breakdown the original list into smaller chunks I get the same problem.

Any Suggestions?

[Dim]

Do you combine it all into a string on the client side, or is it combined as it's being transfered...if that's the case then i would suggest putting a waitng sequence into effect to allow operations to occur in some kind of order. Or simply arange the string b4 transfering it. OR how about sending the data one at a time and also putting a waiting sequence (DoEvents) or (Sleep).

Hope that helps,
D!m

[ledger]

I've tried a sleep on the server side to give it chance to get all the data, but I haven't tried on the client side.

Thanks

[dgarroway98]

When you are receiving the data on the server side be sure to accept it into an empty string.

Ex.

Dim strData As String
.
.
.

strData = ""
Winsock.GetData strData

If the string is not empty, you can get unpredictable results.