Sorry about misreading your message. Can you provide more information about what you are trying to accomplish on the server and what interaction that has with the client?

>Thank you Cathi,
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>however, what I'm looking for is a server-side solution. So I cannot have a Windows Form... or can I? ... I did this trick many years ago with VB6 to build a winsock activex component. There was no winsock class available... only a winsock control.
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>So I built a VB Class that was starting an invisible form with the winsock control on it. My class wrapped this form to benefit from the winsock control features...
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>Would it be possible to do the same in .NET? Since the form would be invisible on my server, do you think taking a snapshot of the form would be possible?
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>Best Regards,
> Alex