Hands-On Network Programming with C# and .NET Core

Leveraging sockets in C#

Sockets in C# are an extremely versatile and flexible concept. As their definition indicates, they only expose a connection to a remote resource, and how that connection is used is almost entirely up to the developer who establishes it. An instance of the Socket class in C# provides synchronous and asynchronous data transfer of packets of arbitrary collections of bytes. The contents, structure, and even protocol used to transmit those packets is up to you (though I do strongly recommend that you always leverage asynchronous communication over synchronous communication). So, let's look at how we'll use it.