.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference

While portions of .NET such as Web Services provide networking functionality at a high level of abstraction, network programmers often need to work at a...

A client program generally wants to send a network request to a server and receive some sort of response. The .NET Framework provides a protocol-independent...

In addition to WebRequest and WebResponse, the System.Net namespace contains a number of other utility classes useful in network programming. The class Dns provides basic...

In my description of the namespaces System.Security (in Volume 1 of the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference) and System.Security., I discussed the nature of...

The System.Net namespace contains two exception classes that are listed in Table 5, which are used to signal network-specific error conditions. Table 5. ClassMeaningProtocolViolationExceptionAn error is...

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Sometimes programmers need to work at an even lower level of abstraction than the WebRequest and WebResponse objects that live in the System.Net namespace, particularly...

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