Multi-threaded Sockets Application

It would help a lot if we knew the target OS or kernel, socket library and compiler you plan to use.

Bob McConnell N2SPP

Bob,

thatnks for the feedback.

The embedded device uses a PIC18F micro. The host device is Intel based. The OS will be Windows 2K +. The PC based development platform is MS Visual Basic .Net.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, Jas>>

If you're talking about visual basic on win2k, c.a.e isn't really the right place. If you want to talk about that PIC, then you'll probably get more help here....

--buddy

Last time I checked, VB will only produce single threaded applications. It cannot be used to create multi-threaded code. You need to change languages as well as news group for that target.

I have done similar multi-threaded apps with VC++, and have seen code for VJ++. But I don't do MS-Windows any more. Both development and support take far more effort than it's worth.

Bob McConnell N2SPP

I'd recommend trying out Python. Both multi-threading and socket communications are very easy to do in Python. And unless you put some effort into making it non-portable, you'll be able to run your program under Windows _or_ Linux or Linux-like systems.

That's an understatement. ;)

Since I was developing an app that used embedded micros that we communicated with using VB.Net I was spreading my questions to a number of groups that might have had some ideas. I been forced to buy a couple of texts to help with my answer.

Thanks,

Jas>Jas>

Jason,

One last comment before I leave you. In C++, the trick you are looking for is called I/O Completion Ports. It's an MS-Windows API that allocations thread resources for I/O events like receiving data on a socket.

Good Luck,

Bob McConnell N2SPP