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Using ServerSocket with a system chosen port

05 05 10 - 23:14 Something I learned today: If you offer an service in your application and you announce it on the network using Bonjour, you can pass a port number. But you don't need to ask the user for a port number or hard code one. You can simply let the operation system pick a port for you:

ServerSocket1.Port = 0
ServerSocket1.Listen
MsgBox str(ServerSocket1.Port)

So you specified 0, you started the socket and now you can read what port you got. If you announce this port now on Bonjour using our DNSServiceRegisterMBS class, your clients will easily find you.