14Networking
C # makes it easy to connect to other computers, using classes from the .NET Library. We first write client programs that connect to a server, which is a program that performs a task useful to its clients, and then write our own servers. A web server provides files such as web pages and images.
To write client programs, we first use C# classes that enable us to hide the details of the interaction between client and server. We then try classes that let us customize the connection, and present classes that give us full control of the communication, but require us then to know the details of the request and response commands.
The simplest ...
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