Summary
Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 has built-in support for sockets that allows for creation of services that can act as a client or a server answering to incoming requests.
Services written in Visual Basic 2008 can support secured or unsecured socket protocols.
Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 System.NET and System.NET.Sockets classes provide a vast amount of support for traditional and nontraditional connection and connectionless protocols.
To interact properly, client-server applications must be written to a standard understood by both the client and the server.
The number of sockets within a client or server is limited by several factors, but revolves around system resources such as memory, network hardware, virtual memory, and CPU. You should write ...
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