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Hi guys...

Some of yall know I'm taking a computer programming course in school this semester. I made a simple program for me and Jonmkj to use to help us stay organized when doing flight plans, etc. It also will count total operations.

My question is: How would it be possible to "link" the two programs together where what I would put in the box would also be shown on the other person's screen?

This is being coded in VB.Net.

Help, comments, or criticisms are great!
 

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Michael

Have you tried a Google search? When I get stuck I find Googling turns up most things. StackOverflow is a good resource as is The Code Project.
 
So...you're asking if two computers can be linked together, and share functions?
I know with remote desktop software person A can operate person Bs computer. Maybe there is a version where both can interact.

Bob
 
I suspect it can be done - consider a chat program. There is a connection made here.

I had a program once that was really basic and used email to pass data back and forth. A bit up from that was a web service. However I am sure there are many better ways.
 
It can be done, but assuming you are both sitting behind NATs/Routers, there's no easy way for any two given computers to talk to each other, without either opening ports on your NAT/Router to forward to the machine running the app, or you have to use a 3rd computer intermediary that sits directly on the internet (web service, specialized server for your protocol, etc).

The actual communication just needs standard Socket stuff (or you could also use something like WCF I suppose).

With something like IM/Chat, you have to log the chat client into a server, and then all your communications are between your computer and that server, if you are chatting with someone else, the server forwards your messages on to the other clients.

Same with MP apps, they generally use some sort of match-making server (gamespy, the old MS Zone, XBox Live for Windows, etc).
 
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