Programming help (vb)

[RSBDavid]

Hello, I am working on a vb6 project. It is a multi-user chat. So far I can only get it to work with two people. One person hosts the server and the other person can enter the computer name and connect to it and chat. I am using the Winsock control. To my understanding, the best way to enable more then two users to use it is to create a server on the internet. I don't know much about that department. I looked up several things, but none helped me. I don't want anyone to give me source code, but pointing me to a site or two would help alot. Basically what I need is a tutorial on creating a certain type of thing where multiple users can connect to a server and talk. I just need something basic. No administrative things or anything like IRC. I have more Visual Basic.net experience then vb6, but I like how vb6 builds projects to a single exe file with added dll's rather then a bunch of wierd files like vb2008 does. IF you can find a vb.net simular thing, I will consider it as well, I just perfer vb6.

 

 

 

So can anyone help me?

[JoeDaStudd]

Hosting it via a server online is going to be tricky as for security reasons most standard hosts will not allow this.

 

To do this you'll need to either use a PC, which you own or have direct access to, and use it as your server or rent/purchase a dedicated server (pretty damn expensive).

 

You keep saying you want this to be a simple project, but its not. The simple option would be to create a client for an existing protocol, not creating your own.

[dsavi]

True.

 

 

 

Why do you want to do it with VB anyway? It's insecure and non cross-platform. One thing you could do is write it as a Java applet, I've seen that chat applets are pretty simple to write in Java.