Dale Smith (adamnet@ix.netcom.com) is trying out some controls for Winsock-development with VB. Here is a list of the controls he will be trying. His comments on the different controls, along with a link to a site where it can be downloaded, can be found by clicking the name of the control

The example I'm doing is using a Web URL which contains a call to a cgi-bin directory. It does a query (I think) and then sends me a file with the mutual fund net asset values for the last 120 days. Of course, I don't interpret the HTML, but I can go in and extract what I need with a VB program and then save the numbers to disk or display them in a grid control, or ... The source code is very, very easy. Check out Chris Barlow's article in the November issue of Visual Basic Programmers Journal. It should still be on the newsstands. That's where I got my idea and some of the source code.

Trumpet Winsock DLL
cswsock
fssock
vbstak
IPDaemon-Server control
IPPort-Client control
dsSock
wskudp
SocketWrench/VB

Also read his comments on the Winsock literature available.