Hey people!

I have been using VB2008 since it came out now, and have also used the 2005 version, but I was just wondering, if there is ANY way to create a Chat Application, or any way to create an IM service.
Please help me

Thanks
x

of course there is a way..

how?

see this link :
http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/showthread.php?t=12469

thx, but im not eally sure how to fully understand this
i wil giv it a go
any other ideas?
x

there are code for this....
sorry if it can't help you.

wel i am sure the code is very useful but I just don't know how to use it

to do such thinks you must use sockets

try this

Imports System
Imports System.Net.Sockets
Imports System.IO
Public Class ServerSocket1
Public Shared Sub Main()
Try
Dim status As Boolean = True
Dim servermessage As String = ""
Dim clientmessage As String = ""
Dim tcpListener As New TcpListener(8100)
tcpListener.Start()
Console.WriteLine("Server Started")
Dim socketForClient As Socket = tcpListener.AcceptSocket()
Console.WriteLine("Client Connected")
Dim networkStream As New NetworkStream(socketForClient)
Dim streamwriter As New StreamWriter(networkStream)
Dim streamreader As New StreamReader(networkStream)
While status
If socketForClient.Connected Then
servermessage = streamreader.ReadLine()
Console.WriteLine("Client:" + servermessage)
If (servermessage = "bye") Then
status = False
streamreader.Close()
networkStream.Close()
streamwriter.Close()
Return
End If
Console.Write("Server:")
clientmessage = Console.ReadLine()
streamwriter.WriteLine(clientmessage)
streamwriter.Flush()
End If
End While
streamreader.Close()
networkStream.Close()
streamwriter.Close()
socketForClient.Close()
Console.WriteLine("Exiting")
Catch e As Exception
Console.WriteLine(e.ToString())
End Try
End Sub
End Class

This is one of numerous manners to program with sockets of cahting based applications

First of all the link that JX gave was perfect. Harry you should put on some effort to understand how the code works.. Good explanation Jugortha..

Try this link too

oh no , its not that I didnt think it was useful, I really aprichate the help, its just, well Im not the brightest of blubs
It just takes me a little time to understand and work things out, and after taking a good look at it, I have found out how it works, but considering I am only 15, I may not be as experianced as other profesional programmers here, but yes this is very helpful and I thank you.

With VB.NET I am starting to understand more all the time, although, there are a few things that I am highly confuzed with, one of these is 'sockets'
At the moment I am looking in how to make use of sockets.

Thanks anyway x