Communicating over a Network

The Winsock control does not provide us with many properties, but it gives us many events and methods to play with. The most important properties are:

RemoteHost - The IP/Machine name of the remote machine

RemotePort - The remote port number that the remote machine is listening to

LocalPort - The local port number to listen to

As you can see, these three properties are quite important. When connecting, you will need to set the RemoteHost and RemotePort, but when you are listening you will only need to set the local port property.

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This article was originally published on November 20, 2002