.NET Common Language Runtime Unleashed

Chapter 12. Networking

In This Chapter

• Brief History of the Distributed Application

• Traditional Sockets

• WinSock

• .NET Networking Classes

• .NET Socket

• .NET Networking Transport Classes

• .NET Protocol Classes

• Connection Management

• Network Security

Networking has been around for a long time. The concept of building a distributed application is equally old. Using the term client/server to describe your application dates your application. If these concepts are so old, why do they still generate so much attention? One of the reasons is that to do “networking” correctly and to build a distributed application requires a lot of work. In addition, the tools available to debug and follow the flow of such an application have been limited. The success of Java—certainly ...