C# Network Programming

A Primer on Socket Programming The Unix operating system revolutionized many features in the programming world. Among these is the file descriptor. A file descriptor provides a programming interface to a file object. Because nearly every obj...

C# Socket Programming The .NET Framework network classes were created to provide easy interfaces to the native Winsock network API for programmers using the .NET programming languages. Now that you have seen how the Winsock API handles net...

C# Socket Helper Classes The .NET Framework supports the normal socket interface for advanced network programmers, but it also provides a simplified interface for easier network programming. The simplified socket helper classes help network ...

Summary This chapter covers a lot of ground in discussing the history of network programming and its relationships to C# network programming. Network programming got its real push in the early days of Unix systems with the Berkeley socket li...