Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the classes in the System.Net and System.Net.Sockets namespaces. These include WebRequest and WebResponse and their descendants HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse, which make it easy to access Web resources using HTTP. The System.Net.Sockets namespace contains the Socket class, which you use when you want close control over network communications, and the less flexible but easier to use classes descending from Socket. These include TcpClient and TcpListener for TCP communications, UdpClient for UDP, and IrDAClient and IrDAListener for infrared communications.

The .NET Compact Framework does not include classes that provide managed access to the serial port on a smart device. This chapter provided you with ...