Yup, that winsock control is quite handy for quick and dirty sockets...
Make sure you instal sp4 and up for vb though if you use an array of server winsock controls because there was a nasty bug before sp4 that screwd up the events from receives...
(If multiple sockets in the array received data at the same time, only one would get noticed until data stopped flowing in to the other sockets...)

(http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q245159)

I got bite by this when I was developping a final project for school work! Urgh! So maddening, I was looking everywhere in my code for days... then I found the KB article..! heh..

Ammo