Thanks Marcia - I needed to post your reply in my inbox!
>Hello John.
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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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>If you have a copy of MegaFox: 1002 Things You Wanted to Know About Extending VFP, we have a Winsock class in Chapter 9:
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>What is the winsock control?
>The Winsock control (contained in: mswinsck.ocx, associated help file mswnsk98.chm) is a ‘socket’ object which allows you to connect to a remote machine and exchange data using either of two communication protocols:
>• User Datagram Protocol (UDP) A connectionless protocol (analogous to passing a note) under which data is passed from one ‘peer’ computer to another without the need to establish an explicit connection.
>• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) A connection based protocol (analogous to a telephone call) which requires that a connection be explicitly established between one computer acting as the ‘client’ and another computer acting as the ‘host’.
>So which protocol is best?
>The answer, as so often in VFP, is that it depends. Each protocol has its benefits, and its drawbacks. Table 9.12 gives a side-by-side comparison.