# FLEx/Flash and VB

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flex-flash-and-vb/284995>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [March 25, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flex-flash-and-vb/284995 "2009-03-25T21:57:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![aruti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@aruti](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aruti)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flex-flash-and-vb/284995/1 "2009-03-25T21:57:53Z")

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I have a project I am working on and I have solved it using VB script. I would like to add a flash front end though. All I want is too machines to talk over tcp/ip. Here’s what I want to do. I have machine a and b. On machine a I want there to be a flash/flex app that will talk to machine b (basically send it a variable). On machine b I need something that is listening to machine a and will also send a response. The app on machine b needs to run commands through a command prompt such as taskill, copyFile, launch a shortcut, etc.

I can set up machine a fine. I have been playing around with the xmlsocket object. It is machine b where I am lost. I wanted to have a flash/flex app there too but apparently flash cant accept an incoming socket. So I guess now I need to write a server app.

Basically what is the best way to get these two machines to talk and how can I send commands to a command prompt from flash/flex?

Thanks for the help