The complete Apiary NetBIOS implementation with session and datagram support in a custom control. This control allows the Visual Basic programmer to very easily develop client/server applications and communicate with peers running WindowsÖ, Windows NTÖ, OS/2«, or any operating system capable of NetBIOS communications.
The NetBIOS custom control supports multiple channels allowing the application to have concurrent NetBIOS links with numerous machines on the network. The number of channels and NetBIOS links is only limited by system resources.
The NetBIOS custom control is event driven and relieves the application from polling the status of the network communications channels. When new data is received from a remote machine, the NetBIOS custom control executes a Visual Basic subroutine allowing the application to service the received information. The NetBIOS custom control also queues events and received data without data loss allowing the application to service network packets only when it is ready.