Question

I have built a simple project which use “Winsock” Tool.

When I receive any data I put it in a variable because i cann’t put it in a textbox because
it is a file not a text.

But if i send a big file it gets me an error.

“Overflow”

Are there any way to fix this problem ?

Answer 1

A VB variable-length string can only in theory be 2GB in size, it’s actual maximum size is depending on available virtual memory which is also limited to 2GB for the entire application. But since VB stores the string in unicode format it means that it can only contain 1GB of text.

(maximum length for string in VB6)

If this is your problem, try splitting incoming data by several strings.