I've been working on a little chat client and server for the past few days and it's sprouted quite well since then. I'm just offering to anybody else who would like to go more indepth into the winsock network programming scene.
This is a voluntary project that I've just been working on, nothing major and money is out of the picture, it's all for the love of programming.
The project isn't going to try to compete with element or msn or anything else out there, but I do want to try to add a wide variety of functions like file sending, whispering, user verification, and a a few other commands.
If you are interested in helping out, pm me or just post with either msn or aim contact info.
By the way, the client and server are working and messages are sending and receiving fine on both ends.
EDIT: Here's what's done so far
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I've just been working on jazzing up the clients text so it has a nice little look. The server is really ugly and plain still but that will change in the near future. The client connects, doesn't ask for input, but you are supposed to type something, just because I was testing the sending. The test string at teh beginning is just a test of how I plan on making the text appear on the screen, I like that style so I will probably go with it.