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How to create a Telnet Client with Visual Basic

If you are interested to write Telnet Clients with Visual BASIC, this could be a great help for you. In this page you will find the best links to information about Telnet protocol.

First of all, you must know about Telnet Protocol. This Microsoft Article briefly describes how Telnet commands and options work.

Now you need to know the details of commands and options which are defined by RFCs. All Telnet Protocol RFCs could be found here.

Then you have to be able to translate the ANSI Escape Codes which are sent by almost all telnet servers.

Also, I'm including a very simple Telnet Client source code written in Visual BASIC.
This code has been tested by Windows 2000 Telnet server on my computer. I have included very limited "Telnet Command" and "ANSI escape code" processing, so, please don't expect that this can connect to all Telnet servers.