Colin
I never used MS Winsock control, but i see no reason why it shouldn't work as intended ( making a Socket connection, that is ). I would recommend you to use Mabry SocketX control, wich i know for sure to work great, but it's not free.

Regards,
Jaime

>I am having trouble getting vfp to establish a winsock connection.
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>The application is for credit card authorisation and uses third party software to do all the card handling stuff. i need to establish a winsock tcp connection to this software. I know the remotehost ip and remote port (1024) .
>using The MS winsock control that comes with vfp i cant establish a connection -i cant seem to get the syntax right, and the help is of no use at all.
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>Anyone out there who could give me some pointers or suggest a different (Free!) Winsock activex control ?
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>Thanks in anticipation
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>Colin Burton