>>>How do I do that?
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>>You first need to find a socket OCX control. There are a few available on the net.
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>What do I do once I have the socket OCX??? What exactly does it do??? Do you have a recommendation on where to look for it?
>
>Craig

I have recently been down a similar path as you.

There are several socket OCX controls available:
http://www.mabry.com/
http://www.brattberg.se/
http://www.microsoft.com/icp/
(there are also some downloads here in the thread)

There are controls which allow you to enable ODBC applications over any TCP/IP network:
http://www.ensodex.com/
http://www.noblenet.com/
The products in this category are expensive, slow(because of ODBC's chatty nature), and most do not have tight security.

Also, as per Microsoft, OLE DB is set to replace ODBC in the future. See http://www.microsoft.com/oledb/ and applied examples at http://www.isg.co.il/ .

Sockets involves data streaming which is somewhat similar to how modems communicate. A socket control usually has a connect, send, receive method, and buffer size property. A socket control resides on the server and client. A connection via TCP/IP is established between the two. Each communicate with one another by sending data strings (the length of the buffer size property) to each other. You can use Foxpro code to parse the information coming (a string at a time) from and to the socket control into your apps.