Winsock with access ???

[prodigy]

<1> If I would like to develop a winsock application; is Access a good platform ?
Can I develop any winsock appl with access. I know not if this is a silly question bcos by saying winsock am including a vast winsock-world. Can someone advise me. Any help is appreciated.
<2> If I would like to use win32 API with access how should I go about. I know that I need to use VBA. Any good book ???

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[prodigy]

Is there anyone who can help me with my posting? Am sure theres some answer to it...
Can u help me?
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[richary]

It may help if you ask a more specific question. What do you actually wish to do with this winsock application? Build a server to listen to requests? Build a client to send requests? Or just access email/ftp or whatever?

Also you only posted you initial request yesterday and that was a holiday in the US so maybe some people had other things to do...

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Access by itself is not the best choice, though if you have a good reference book to the contents of the .DLL files, you can call the routines from VBA as "externals" and do some useful things.

The problem is that VBA isn't compiled. It is semi-compiled. I.e. It builds pseudo-code, not true INTEL instructions. Therefore slower than compiled code by some margin. I can't tell you just how (in-)efficient the pseudo-code is because I've not seen the binaries.

If you can activate external WinSock routines, they are binary so would be sufficient to do some useful things. I'm not near my references at the moment so all I can suggest is to look up "Externals" in the help files.

 

[prodigy]

Hi Richary/DocMan,
good to hear frm u. Hope u enjoyed holiday. I wuld like to develop a client server application using winsock. The server is going to recv request from clients search the db and get back to the client. Clients will send reqst to the server.
Prodigy.