>I am preparing for an upcoming project that will involve TCP communication between my Foxpro application and an outside server. I found a zip of a simple client\server application at the MSDN site.
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>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315124
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>I was able to run the programs but the client app would not connect to the server app. The server did have its port open as I was able to ping it. I was running both programs on my local machine and there are no firewall issues and i have tried all kinds of different socket numbers.
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>Perhaps this example is using a deprecated version of winsocks.
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>My development environment is Windows XP and I have Foxpro6,7 and 8. This example does not work on any version. I would appreciate any examples and or hints that would point me towards the right direction. My goal for now is simply to connect to another TCP socket from within VFP.
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>Thanks,

John,
The last time I checked, this example worked in VFP 6 and 7. I haven't tested it in 8 yet.

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~lmiller3/downloads/winsock_test.zip