TCPIP and VDF

Some time ago i was contacted by Microbase from Melbourne to set up a tcp/ip communication link from his application - written in VDF - to a third party application in order to extend functionality and communicate with an SMS gateway.
There was a couple of ways to connect to the gateway, but we decided that it would be perfect if we could use the tcpip route.
Now we had to make up our minds if we were going to do this the hard way - using a DLL interface - or the easy way, by using COM.
A choice easily made, as activeX is reasonably well implemented in VDF these days.
The included example down here is what was used as the bases for the control build at the time.

Then after a while ... i attended the scanduc and was asked to present "something".
So... this is what i presented and the powerpoint presentation from that time is included in the zipfile.

Installation notes

Tested to work with VDF11.0 but it will probably run on VDF8+
Requirements: A valid developers license for the ms winsock client.
This comes for ex. with MS Visual Studio 6.

There are 2 compiled examples in the workspace, but it also contains the complete
sourcecode for the example.

In order to compile the applications yourself, follow these steps:

• register the workspace by double clicking on the Antwise.Test.Winsock.ws file
• (re)generate the compackage (or edit the licensekey property in the cComWinsock.pkg file).
• Compile, run and enjoy!

Note

In order to be able to use the activeX control which is used in here, you do need a MS license for Visual Studio or similar product. The generated wrapper pkg contains the license key.
The supplied package has these lines removed, so you'll need to regenerate those yourself.
The example also contains executables (vdf11 ?) which should work out of the box and can be used to test with.

Download

Winsock.zip ~ 1.3Mb

Subversion

scanduc-winsock repository