Programming Windows® Services with Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008

Chapter 9. Talking to the Internet

In this chapter:

Reading and Parsing ASP Pages

Adding a Dynamic Status ASPX Page

FTP and Your Service

Using FTP in the Service

Uploading Data Using FTP

Summary

One of the most powerful features built into .NET is the ability to use different Internet protocols. In many cases you can write your own classes to communicate with TCP/UDP-based streams, as we did for our SMTP class. We could have used other Microsoft technologies, such as Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) or the Messaging API (MAPI), but writing our own SMTP wrapper was easier than adding the overhead into our service. Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 using version 3.5 of the .NET Framework has introduced new ways to talk to Web services or Internet protocols such ...