Bob,

Just thought you might want to know, I mostly solved my problems with regards to the Winsock within a DLL.

Basically, the problem was that the winsock.state variable won't get updated while you're in a method of the DLL. Once you leave the method though, the state can be updated. So the solution was to break out the connection code into a couple methods, so that it calls for the connection in one method and then the client code waits for the connection to complete by calling a different method.

Thanks for your help though.

Matt