README.md

December 5, 2022 · View on GitHub

Advanced Multiple Connection Server and Client

The coding shows for any beginner or intermediate how to solve many of the tough challenges of:

Inserting a picture without using the clipboard

A list of people currently in the chat room, and an icon showing whether they are away or not

How to use an imagelist to draw onto a picturebox that changes it's color on mouseover

How to use the Tree control

How to create your VERY OWN PROTOCOL using winsocks and dataarrivals

How to use the Toolbar control

How to dynamically load as many winsocks as necessary

How to unload spare winsocks when they are no longer in use to save memory

Shows how to use anti-flood methods by not allowing the client to re-post until the server sends everyone the last post

Shows how to use picture manipulation in a tree control

THERES EVEN A SPECIAL SUB HERE TO CONVERT A PICTURE TO RTF CODE!!!!!

You cannot send text while in an away state

How to create a max send, not from the text they write, but from the maximum a socket can send, ie. the TextRTF of a RichTextBox

How to scroll to the bottom of a textbox, where more text is added

Inserting smilies and converting them from pictures to strings, using their keys to store which picture they are

And many more techniques, including good programming habits

They can be viewed in the program.