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End points of the connection
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This part of the tutorial series is about how to use the getpeername and getsockname Winsock API functions in Visual Basic in order to determine parameters of the TCP connection's end-points.
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Introduction to the Winsock API Test Bench sample application : Winsock API - Step by step tutorial for the Visual Basic developers
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The second part of the Winsock API tutorial is to introduce the following functions: accept, bind, closesocket, connect, getpeername, getsockname, getsockopt, listen, recv, select, send, setsockopt, socket. We'll learn these functions by creating the Winsock API Test Bench sample application.
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Developing Client-Server Applications with MS Winsock Control
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In this article, I am going to show how to use the Winsock in a client server environment, we will create two separate applications, one of which will be a server and the other will be a client. Both client and server will interact with each other to exchange data. Client will send a request to the
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Your First TAPI Program
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This sample application shows you how you can use the TAPI 3.0 functions to create a TAPI application of your own. This application uses the Windows Phone Dialer utility that comes with Windows and can be found under the Accessories group. That program will act as the call manager and will handle th
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Writing Your First Speech Recognition Program by John T. Yung
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I recently came upon a project where a program can take in voice commands and perform tasks like opening a program or a file in Windows without any mouse or keyboard input. At first, I thought that was some fancy coding stuff going on that was out of my league. Well guess what, on a closer investiga
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How to track the download progress
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The Internet Transfer Control (ITC) provides us with a very easy way to retrieve web resources. But unfortunately the control doesn't have any means to track the progress of data transfer. It could be nice if the control ...
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Internet Protocol Helper API (IP Helper API)
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We have launched new section of the website - IP Helper API. While the IP Helper API is designed for use by C/C++ programmers, it is possible to use this API in Visual Basic. In this section you will find out how to use some functions of that API. At this time there are two articles: "How to get all
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CWinInetConnection class
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Check up CWinInetConnection class that, encapsulating the calls of WinInet API, allows you to detect the Internet connection and its properties, establish and hang up the connection, switch the system state known as Online/Offline mode.
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Mail Checker Sample Application
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the tutorial that shows you all the steps of creating of the simple application for receiving e-mail.
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Sending files inside e-mail messages
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We have published the introduction to UUCode algorithm and tutorial that shows how to add new feature of dealing with attachments to our sample applications Simple MailSender and MailChecker.
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Secrets of FTP
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Read our practical introduction to the File Transfer Protocol for Visual Basic developers. You'll find out how to retrieve listings of FTP directories, download and upload files, and how to resume broken file transfer. FTP Quick Reference will help you to learn all the FTP commands and server reply
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Review of “Network Programming for Microsoft® Windows®”
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If you are, as I was, looking for the book that covers the Winsock API and gives examples of how to use it with Visual Basic, you have found what you were looking for. That is, this title is a single one on the market today that keeps in mind that there are thousands of the Visual Basic programmers
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CSocket class - replacement for the MS Winsock Control
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This is an attempt to simulate functionality and behavior of the MS Winsock ActiveX Control. Why do I call it "an attempt"? Because I don't know what exactly is going on inside that control. I can suppose which Winsock API functions are called by the control's methods but I don't know a lot of other
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Binary download with the Internet Transfer Control by Mikael Östberg
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Have you ever wanted to retrieve information automatically from another web page and display it on your own web page? There are a couple of ways to do this. One way, which I am going to show you in this article, is using the Microsoft Internet Transfer Control, also known as the Inet Control. It is
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Implementing a Distributed Algorithm in Visual Basic
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An illustrative algorithm is implemented in Visual Basic, emphasizing all the four fundamental aspects of distributed computing systems: resource sharing, computation speedup, reliability, and communication. Winsock control is used to provide effective communication and resource sharing between the
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Listening for and accepting connection requests
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What the title of this article is talking about? Who is listening? Why should it accept any requests? To answer these questions just imagine that you are going to develop a server application that servers one or many client applications via a network. You'll find out that you know nothing about how
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Sending Data using socket.
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In the previous article we learned the recv Winsock API function which is used to read incoming data from the Winsock buffer. Today we'll see how to write data to the Winsock buffer for sending that data to a remote host. That is, actually, the send Winsock API function is not to send data. It just
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Developing with a new standard in UI
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In this new century we enter, everything relating to software should have a standard of quality. For small time programmers, that doesn't necessarily mean having quick turnaround or technical support response. No, for quality, I mean having features that can make your user interface smart and easier
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Creation of an Access database from an XML file
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This class was originally part of a larger project to extract data from a mainframe and present it to Crystal Reports. I selected XML as the data format because it is so flexible and yet easy to generate from COBOL. The code to transport the data from the mainframe and generate the reports has been
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Binding a socket : Winsock API Test Bench sample application
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Today we will learn how to use the bind Winsock API function that allows to associate a local address with a socket. We'll modify the Winsock API TestBench sample application in order to give the user of the program to specify local host address and port number for a socket.
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