C# Network Programming

A Simple TCP Client Now that you have a working TCP server, you can create a simple TCP client program to interact with it. As described in Chapter 3, there are only two steps required to connect a client program to a TCP server: Create...

When TCP Goes Bad The simple example programs studied so far in this chapter assumed a lot when sending and receiving data across the TCP channel. There are, however, plenty of possible glitches that weren’t taken into consideration. I...

Using C# Streams with TCP Because handling messages on a TCP connection is often a challenge for programmers, the .NET Framework supplies some extra classes to help out. This section describes the NetworkStream class, which provides a stream...

Summary This chapter described how to send messages using a TCP socket. Because TCP sockets are connection-oriented, both ends of the connection must be established before any data can be transmitted. The data is sent to the remote device us...