How to make chatting application in vb.net

Question

Hey guys, i want to make chatting application in vb.net like whats app etc. But without a number or IP. With creating account and chatting with each other

thanks in advance!

i want it like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxD708U0DEs

but the prob that the link is broken

Answer 1

Take a look at SignalR

http://netinhand.blogspot.com/2013/11/signalr-20-vbnet-push-notification.html

Answer 2

Following are few articles which may help, but code is in C#. You can use C# to VB.NET Converter

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/429144/Simple-Instant-Messenger-with-SSL-Encryption-in-Cs
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19752/WCF-WPF-Chat-Applicationhttp://www.codeproject.com/Tips/607801/SimpleplusChatplusprogramplusinplusC

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Gaurav Khanna | Microsoft MVP | Microsoft Community Contributor

Answer 3

I want to make it in vb.net (Windows form app)

Answer 4

Try these

https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/Simple-Chat-Application-3f7f4ec5
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/38914/A-TCP-IP-Chat-Program

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Gaurav Khanna | Microsoft MVP | Microsoft Community Contributor

Answer 5

I will try them all!

Thanks. please be here if i have any probs which mean still the question isnt answered!

thanks.

Answer 6

Okay sadly, both gave me error or isnt familar to me if u have any another one then please send :) 

THANKS

Answer 7

Okay sadly, both gave me error or isnt familar to me if u have any another one then please send :) 

THANKS

might be helpful if you provide something a little bit more specific about the error

Answer 8

Okay sadly, both gave me error or isnt familar to me if u have any another one then please send :) 

THANKS

Of course none of them will be familiar to you because they were written by people that understood them.

Which version of Visual Studio are you using and I mean type and year (i.e. Visual Studio Express for Desktop, 2008) or whatever?

Update: Although you will not understand the programs in this thread Using Multiple VS IDEs for Client/Server Project? which I provide links to the entire projects which can be downloaded if you have an acceptable version of Visual Studio you can dowloand the projects and build them and run them. It would be quite some time before you would understand them I believe. I don't even understand the TAP one.

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La vida loca

Answer 9

Hey guys, i want to make chatting application in vb.net like whats app etc. But without a number or IP. With creating account and chatting with each other

thanks in advance!

i want it like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxD708U0DEs

but the prob that the link is broken

You need to create two applications.  One needs to be some form of web service to act as the central connection and relay point for your clients, and the other is the client itself.

For the server, an ASP.Net Web API project would probably be ideal and then your client can be a Windows Forms application which consumes the API.  You can potentially use Azure to host the Web API application, here is an example.

This way the server provides a known endpoint for the clients to connect to and it can handle the authentication requirements as well as accepting messages from one client and delivering them to others.

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Reed Kimble - "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all"