VB 08: Voice Chat?

[omg_lol]

How can i add voice chat into a VB 08 program? Like lets say i have the program installed and so do 3 of my friends, how can we all talk using a mic? The only way i can think of is C4F but i dont think it has voice chat...+rep to whoever gets it for me

[Cephalopod]

1 on 1 voice chatting is easy.

You complicate it when adding more users, still relatively easy but you're going to have to learn 1 on 1 first. Here is a quick guide on 1 on 1.

Peer-to-peer voice chat for CSharp, Visual Basic, C++

[omg_lol]

Thanks, ill take a look at it
If anyone else has another guide, id gladly read it too.

[Cephalopod]

Just a bit more to go on

The way I made a basic muti-person text based chat a few years ago (when I was on VB6) I'd create a control array in the "host" who would have a direct connection to everyone, the others would all only be connected to the "host", they would send their data to the "host" and the "host" would then relay it back to everyone else. Theoretically you could do the same with voice chats but you'd need to use a collection of controls as arrays were scrapped. You COULD create a connection between everyone. Two ways are:

A)
HOST <-> PersonA
HOST <-> PersonB
HOST <-> PersonC
HOST <-> PersonD

pro = easy to code.
con = Host leaves, chats over.

or

B)

PersonC <-> PersonA
PersonC <-> PersonB
PersonC <-> PersonD
PersonC <-> PersonE
PersonA <-> PersonB
PersonA <-> PersonD
PersonA <-> PersonE
PersonB <-> PersonD
PersonB <-> PersonE

pro = no central host, chat does not depend on one person.
con = harder to code (not much though - there is a reason most chat sites use a central server tho.)

You can also create a new control specifically for it, but it is kind of stupid to.

Not sure how new you are though & whether you're interested in learning or copy/paste work, so you might need a tutorial on collections, if you want to copy and paste then you'll be out of luck as you'll struggle to find a working example that's well coded (imo).

White paper on "collections":
Creating Control Arrays in Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET

[omg_lol]

Im new, and i kinda dont feel like reading i prefer copy + paste, but if i have to, ill read a tut.

[Clain]

Copy and pasting is BAD in cases like this. You need to learn the basics before you tackle things like this. If you just ask people do to everything for you then you aren't even programming really nor learning.