Abort Asynchronous Socket Connect

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Visual Basic example code showing how abort an asynchronous TCP socket connect.

    ' Demonstrates how to begin an asynchronous TCP/IP socket connection and
    ' then abort prior to completion.
    
    ' Create a Chilkat Socket object and unlock.
    Set socket = New ChilkatSocket
    success = socket.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
    If (success = 0) Then
        MsgBox "Failed to unlock component"
        Exit Sub
    End If
    
    Dim hostname As String
    hostname = "www.chilkatsoft.com"
    ' There is nothing listening at this port, so the connect will certainly
    ' timeout and fail -- unless it is aborted prior to timing out.
    port = 132
    
    ' Wait a maximum of 10 seconds (10000 milliseconds)
    maxWaitMs = 10000
    
    ' Begin an asynchronous TCP socket connect
    success = socket.AsyncConnectStart(hostname, port, maxWaitMs)
    If (success = 0) Then
        MsgBox socket.LastErrorText
        Exit Sub
    End If
    
    ' Your program may now continue while the connect is proceeding in a
    ' background thread.
    
    ' You may abort the background thread at any point by calling AsyncConnectAbort.
    ' This example aborts after 1 second
    socket.SleepMs 1000
    socket.AsyncConnectAbort
    
    ' Wait for the connect to complete, fail, or abort.
    Do
        DoEvents
        socket.SleepMs 10
    Loop Until (socket.AsyncConnectFinished = 1)

    ' You may check the completion status by:
    If (socket.AsyncConnectFinished = 1) Then
    
        MsgBox "Background TCP connect thread is finished"
        
        ' If finished, you may check the success/failure status:
        If (socket.AsyncConnectSuccess = 1) Then
            MsgBox "TCP socket connected!"
        Else
            ' if not successful, the error log is available in AsyncConnectLog:
            MsgBox socket.AsyncConnectLog
        End If
    Else
         MsgBox "Background connect thread is still running"
    End If