.NET Common Language Runtime Unleashed

.NET Networking Transport Classes

Because TCP and UDP protocols are used so often, Microsoft built wrapper classes to handle most of the functionality required of a TCP or UDP client/server distributed application. These classes are TcpListener, TcpClient, and UdpClient. Because UDP is a connectionless protocol, the client and server can be handled with one class so there is not a UdpListener class.

Building a client/server application using these classes is similar to building an application using the Socket class. A higher level abstraction is involved, but the sequence of calls is essentially the same. For all but the specialized applications, you should use these classes.

UDP Class

A server using the UdpClient class is shown starting with ...