Advanced Multiple Connection Server and Client

The coding shows for any beginner or intermediate how to solve many of the tough challenges of: Inserting a picture without using the clipboard . A list of people currently in the chat room, and an icon showing whether they are away or not . How to use an imagelist to draw onto a picturebox that changes it's color on mouseover . How to use the Tree control . How to create your VERY OWN PROTOCOL using winsocks and dataarrivals . How to use the Toolbar control . How to dynamically load as many winsocks as necessary . How to unload spare winsocks when they are no longer in use to save memory . Shows how to use anti-flood methods by not allowing the client to re-post until the server sends everyone the last post . Shows how to use picture manipulation in a tree control . THERES EVEN A SPECIAL SUB HERE TO CONVERT A PICTURE TO RTF CODE!!!!! . You cannot send text while in an away state . How to create a max send, not from the text they write, but from the maximum a socket can send, ie. the TextRTF of a RichTextBox . How to scroll to the bottom of a textbox, where more text is added . Inserting smilies and converting them from pictures to strings, using their keys to store which picture they are . And many more techniques, including good programming habits