A Visual Basic custom control that provides you with full access to the power of Windows, making it easy to write TCP/IP client and server software. ASocket provides complete support for Windows and Visual Basics event-driven programming model and lets you do almost anything that can be done with WinSock. SocketType sockStream provides sequenced, reliable, full-duplex, connection-based byte streams. Uses the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) for the Internet address family. SocketType sockDatagram supports datagrams, which are connectionless, unreliable packets (typically small) of a fixed maximum length. Uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) for the Internet address family.