I have a need to write a simulation in a development environment and I'd like to determine which product of the 2008 Visual Studio Express suite will best fit my needs.
The application must accomplish the following: 1. Establish between 200 and 300 simultaneous telnet sessions to a single IP address (does not have to listen, only establish). 2. Each session will send a heartbeat character at a static rate. 3. Must query a MSSQL database. 4. In addition to the heartbeat character, each link will need to send data (pulled from the SQL DB) at a pre-determined range (say randomly between 10 and 30 seconds). I appreciate any help that this community can offer me. I can fairly easily pick up on the languages and there's a lot of support online, I just want to make sure I'm taking the path of least resistance. Thank you.
