Hey. My bot connects and stuff, but I was wondering - are there any classes out there or wrappers people have made that make the winsock portion of console C++ bots any cleaner? My code is real messy and I was going to try and make some sort of class or wrapper to make it a little easier - by why reinvent the wheel, eh? Just wondering if anyone has anything like this.

If you're supporting ActiveX in your project, you may (or may not) be able to use the Microsoft Winsock OCX.

http://www.cplusplus.com/src/

scroll down to windows programs and you will find a C++ Winsock wrapper.

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If you're supporting ActiveX in your project, you may (or may not) be able to use the Microsoft Winsock OCX.
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Apart from the fact people usually code in c/c++ to avoid costly COM marshaling, the Microsoft Winsock OCX requires a window handle for notifying the container of specific events. This guy is writing a console app, so that would be unsuitable.

Also, the fact that COM uses an apartment threading model causes major headaches for a multithreaded c/c++ app. Besides that, using/implementing COM interfaces in pure c/c++ is no trivial task.