Summary

  • Visual Basic 2008 has native support for client-written and server-written socket-based applications.

  • Visual Basic 2008 supports a practically unlimited protocol set for sockets, including UDP, TCP/IP (including the new Internet Protocol Version 6 standard), secured sockets and more.

  • Data transferred over a client/server architecture is based on an application-defined protocol standard. Custom-written applications that communicate with a custom server must internally supply this definition so that the client/server can communicate properly and effectively.

  • SMTP is a powerful communication protocol for sending information to single or multiple recipients.

  • Use the ThreadPool class when possible to avoid difficult synchronization and management ...

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