Question how to constantly try a connection?

[Slayer9x9]

Hey all, I'm new to these forums, and I hope you guys can help. x)

So, I'm not a n00b at coding (but I'm still sort-of a beginner - I know the basics) and I'm interested in the areas of socket programming.

The problem is that I'm trying to make a server that connects to a client on my computer, but I want the server to constantly try a connection. I tried using the Try - Catch method, but vb.net keeps bugging me about the connection.

Is there a way to tell the server to try a connection, and ignore all connection errors and try again?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Robert_Zenz]

Hello.

Yes, this should work with try...Catch. Can you show us the code of yours, so that we can tell what's wrong with it?

Bobby

 

[Slayer9x9]

Heh, actually I figured it out...
It was indeed a simple Try...Catch.

What I originally did was:

Public Sub Connect()
     Try
               tcpClient.Connect("some_host_name", some_port")
     Catch ex as Exception
               tcpClient.Connect("some_host_name", some_port")
     End Try
End Sub

After completing the "Try", I would constantly get a connection error on the "Catch" method.
However, all I had to do was this:

Public Sub Connect()
TryAgain:    
     Try
               tcpClient.Connect("some_host_name", some_port")
     Catch ex as SocketException
               goto TryAgain
     End Try
End Sub

Thanks for your help, and I look forward to helping others as well.