Socket provides you with full access to the power of Windows
Sockets, making it easy to write TCP/IP or UDP client and server
software. Socket comes in ActiveX control and COM object forms.
Because Socket is both an ActiveX control and a COM object, you can
use it nearly anywhere -- ASP pages, Visual Basic applications,
Visual C++ applications, anywhere that supports either COM objects
or ActiveX controls.

Socket provides complete support for Windows and Visual Basic's
event-driven programming model and lets you do nearly anything that
can be done with WinSock. Socket goes beyond the normal Visual Basic
event-driven model by providing a scheme for Fast Notifications.
Fast Notifications allow your program to quickly receive events
through simple functions, rather than going through the lengthy
process to fire an event. Fast Notifications considerably reduce the
amount of time required to handle an event and only require a couple
extra lines of code on your part. Want to stick with events? No
problem! Those are still supported.

You can also use Socket in a "blocking" mode. This enables you to
use Socket where events and callbacks are impractical (such as ASP
pages).

Socket supports stream-based and datagram sockets. Stream-based
sockets provide sequenced, reliable, full-duplex,
connection-oriented byte streams. With stream-based sockets your
data is guaranteed to arrive. This uses the Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP) for the Internet address family.

Datagram sockets are connectionless, unreliable packets (typically
small) of a fixed maximum length. These kinds of sockets are good
for broadcasting large quantities of small pieces of information to
a lot of clients. This style of socket uses the User Datagram
Protocol (UDP) for the Internet address family.

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