Sasco Systems is a division of Sasco Electric, one of the largest contractors in the U.S. As an alliance member, Sasco Systems, an engineer / construction contractor, provides clients such as stadiums, sports arenas, and broadcast and television studios engineered projects from a value management perspective.

I went to a major bookstore and went through the some 8 linear feet of books on Visual Basic. Checking the table of contents and the indexes I found that they were concerned with making things happen on the computer in front of you. The idea that one computer might actually interact with another wasn't entertained in any of them.

We all know this is possible and done all the time but finding it in one book is just about impossible.

There is a protocol for operating in a Windows or NT environment. Another protocol is required for passing something over a network. Since this is to be a pull rather than a push transfer, that too will take some special code. To store data in a specific memory location takes yet another specific routine.

Even if you had all the pieces, you'd spend quite a bit of time troubleshooting your masterpiece.

About the best you can hope for is to find a toolkit that has pieces of code that can be strung together be it in C++, Visual Basic, or some other library not even anticipated.

Such are the dangers of not being a code warrior on a daily basis. Knowing where to go and find something that works seems to be most of the battle.