Brent

can anyone tell me where a good VB networking tutorial is, i heard there's a thing call "sox" or "socks" could someone tell me more about this, thanks in advance.

Rory

The intended way to provide networking capabilities in VB6 is through the Winsock control, effectively a wrapper for the windows socket APIs. Your best bet is the msdn (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ockcontrol.asp).
However, I believe it oversimplifies and adds too much overhead. Fine if you want to make a simple chat program, but it doesn't support low-level interaction unlike the native APIs, and is restricted to TCP/UDP.

Additionally this component is restricted to Enterprise edition, though you can use the Winsock component in any development IDE version with a little registry hack (ahem).

Anyway, as VB6 is not multithreaded, if you're seeking to make something more robust (e.g. a server application), try VB.NET as it supports true simultaneous requests and takes advantage of the extensive networking capabilities of the .NET Framework.