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C# 10.0 All-in-One For Dummies
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C# 10.0 All-in-One For Dummies

by John Paul Mueller
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
19h 46m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 4

Accessing the Internet

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Taking a tour of the System.Net namespace

Bullet Using built-in tools to access the network

Bullet Making the network tools work for you

The .NET Framework is designed from the ground up to take the Internet and networking in general into consideration. Not surprisingly, the emphasis on connectivity in every form is nowhere more clear than it is in the System.Net namespace (https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.net). The Internet takes first chair here, with web tools taking up 13 of the classes in the namespace.

System.Net is a big, meaty namespace, and finding your way around it can be difficult, so this chapter begins with an overview of the namespace. The chapter then discusses tasks that you perform often and shows the basics of performing them. Next, you find out about the tools to research complex features of the classes.

Networking is a big part of the .NET Framework, and all the functionality is in this namespace. An entire book can be (and has been) written on the subject. For the purposes of this introduction to networking with C#, this chapter shows you the following features:

  • Getting a file from the network
  • Sending email ...
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