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I know Inet Control and Winsock Control are both included in Socket Class. However, it would be great if someone who have the experience and knowledge in VB.NET to show us how to use Socket Class to achieve some if not all the functionality in Inet & Winsock through a comprehensive tutorial. Eg. Inet.OpenURL is for downloading, Winsock.SendData is to send something and etc... but how it works in .NET socket class? Besides, 1 thing I experience in Socket Class is that after I had downloaded a file, I must actually perform encoding to get the ASCII contents because everything downloaded is byte stream (I think...)... so, this is a highlight to inform others too.. Thanks for considering my suggestion. :)

And .NET framework will most probably be the winner of this competition because I have seen what VB.NET can but Java cannot even with the latest Java SDK 1.4! In fact, learning either .NET or Java will bring advantages to the programmers.. because as I said, they are quite similar.. and it lowers the learning curve for either programmers...

It is possible only if you know how WinZip are compressed! It makes sense that you must know what is the Compression Algorithm used in WinZip in order for you to Decompress them! And worst of all, it's not an easy task even to implement the process... Take a look at these article http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=huffman+compression+algorithm+in+visual+basic

I just realize that VB.NET is very similar to Java!! Everything is an object!! Including data types and arrays... Which means to say that Java Programmers are easier to port into VB.NET!! Too bad!! If I could have learn Java at the ealier time...