Chapter 10. Networking
The Microsoft .NET Framework includes a full set of classes for network programming. These classes support low-level network programming tasks like querying the state of network interfaces and socket-based programming with Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to higher-level tasks like downloading files and HTML pages from the Web over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). You can even build fully distributed applications using distributed objects or service-oriented approaches.
Included in the release of .NET Framework 3.0 was Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), a unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. Although earlier technologies are still available, WCF is generally ...
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