Product Description

This updated edition provides the latest information about how to write applications that take advantage of the advanced networking protocols and technologies that Microsoft Windows XP supports-Internet Protocol (IP) versions 4 and 6, Pragmatic General Multicasting (PGM) protocol, Internet Group Management Protocol 3 (IGMPv3), IPv6 multicasting, the Network Location Awareness (NLA) namespace provider, the Winsock Provider Interface, 64-bit Winsock APIs, and .NET Sockets. The book includes code samples in the Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual C++, and Microsoft Visual C# development systems.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #528340 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 580 pages

Customer Reviews

Superb reference for MS Network and Winsock API's.
I purchased this book for coverage of the Winsock 2.0 API and found it to be an excellent Winsock API Reference and much more. The text was very well laid out. I'm a C/C++ programmer as well as a beginner VB programmer, and I too thought the examples were clear, practical, and to the point. I disagree with dave's comment below and woudl recommend this book to anyone interested in learning network programming on the Window's environment.

An excellent Winsock API Reference
I thought the book well laid out and easy to read. My main intrest in this book was to get a better Winsock reference, so I skipped over the first several chapters of this book. I found that it did much better job of addressing EACH of the Winsock API functions than any of the documentation I've seen to date. I'm a C/C++ programmer, not a VB programmer, and I thought the examples were clear, practical, and generally better than most. It was just what I was looking for.

Best Winsock/network programming book out there
As a professional networking software tester I have read atleast parts of most of the network programming books out there, andthis is the best of them so far. As previously mentioned the authors concentrate primarily on Winsock and mostly on C/C++ (as any serious network programmer should in both cases). Since this book does cover so many subjects though, some of the more peripheral subjects are mentioned relatively briefly, but hey, that's what SDK's are for. Concentrating on the main subject the authors do a great job of explaining Winsock and its application. I was particularly impressed by the comprehensive way in which they covered the differences between protocols, and between operating systems. It was also impressive (especially for an MSPress book) that they point out all the idiosyncracies and occasional bugs in the different implementations of Winsock. Obviously this book is intended for at least an intermediately skilled programmer, but should work well as a reference and an introduction to new topics (such as QOS, multicasting, and LSP's) to even more experienced coders.

To allay the conspiracy fears of those Linux people out there, I am not affiliated in any way with Microsoft Corporation or MSPress.