I am working with VB 5.0. I would like to create a fuction to which I pass
a user defined type (udt). That udt will then be transformed into a byte
array or string and that string will be sent to another computer using TCP
and  the Winsock control.

My challenge is that I would like to pass different udt's to this same
function without converting them to byte arrays or strings first.  Is this
possible? Any
ideas?

Thanks.

Tom Clarke

I'm not sure if there's any way to do this.  You can't overload functions in
VB.  You can't declare an argument as a variant and pass it a UDT.

But....

You should be able declare each UDT as a class and then declare your
function to take an Object.  Better yet, have each class (UDT) implement the
same interface - one of your interface members would be a function that
returned a copy of itself, but in a byte array or string.  Alternatively
(but similarly), you could do away with the classes and interfaces and just
define a function for each UDT that would return the UDT as a byte array or
string.

Andrew