Please anyone help me out

Could you please help me to solve the problem.Since im new to this type of socket programming i have been in desperate situation. im going to develop a simulator to test the remote devices in the same machine.i think the first step to develop is to connect both the client and server in the same machine through the socket programming but im not able to connect it.both the client and server application runs...

Actually i have written the winsock server/client application which i will include it below.In that i have got the server waiting for too long i dont know why..and the client is not able to connect the socket..whether i have to run both the application to establish the connection throu socket?in client application im getting the error "Connect Error. Program aborted"..im using visual C++ compiler.

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I have created a small client application with loopback address (127.0.0.1) so that same machine act as server and client. but i want to know whether we have to create seperate server application and run that seperately inorder to connect with the same machine.
Even if i run client and server application seperately client application shows the error ie., "Not able to connect program aborted".
In the...