Windows Sockets Network Programming [Paperback]

Bob Quinn (Author), David Shute (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201633728 | ISBN-13: 978-0201633726 | Publication Date: December 14, 1995

Windows Sockets (WinSock), a standard network API co-developed by PC network industry leaders including Microsoft, Novell, Hewlett-Packard, and FTP Software, is an extraordinary resource for Windows network programmers. This book will enable you to reap WinSock's full benefits to create client and server network applications for use on any TCP/IP network, including the Internet. It also lays the groundwork for WinSock application development using other protocol suites. The book describes how to develop 16- and 32-bit WinSock applications, and focuses on designs that will run on any WinSock implementation. It highlights the differences that exist between WinSock DLLs, and other traps and pitfalls in network application development, and shows you how to avoid them. It covers every function in version 1.1 of the WinSock specification, and provides a detailed tour of the newest features in WinSock version 2. Windows Sockets Network Programming is geared for novice and experienced network programmers alike. The early chapters provide a tutorial that brings novices up to speed quickly, and the remainder provides a detailed reference, with examples. These include complete source code for a number of useful applications, including an ftp client. Other topics covered include: how to create a dynamic link library to run over WinSock, how to port existing BSD Sockets source code to WinSock, and how/when to use WinSock's optional features. It also details debugging techniques and tools. The appendices provide a quick reference for API essentials, illustrations of the TCP/IP protocol suite, an extensive error reference, and pointers to more information on or off the Internet. The accompanying disk contains the source code for all the sample applications, as well as a few other tools to help you with your programming tasks. 0201633728B04062001

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"WinSock has become hugely popular and has been badly in need of a great book. Until now ( Windows Sockets Network Programming )." - Martin Hall, CTO, Stardust Technologies, Inc. and WinSock Group Chairman

From the Back Cover

Windows Sockets (WinSock), a standard network API co-developed by PC network industry leaders including Microsoft, Novell, Hewlett-Packard, and FTP Software, is an extraordinary resource for Windows network programmers. This book will enable you to reap WinSock's full benefits to create client and server network applications for use on any TCP/IP network, including the Internet. It also lays the groundwork for WinSock application development using other protocol suites.

The book describes how to develop 16- and 32-bit WinSock applications, and focuses on designs that will run on any WinSock implementation. It highlights the differences that exist between WinSock DLLs, and other traps and pitfalls in network application development, and shows you how to avoid them. It covers every function in version 1.1 of the WinSock specification, and provides a detailed tour of the newest features in WinSock version 2.

Windows Sockets Network Programming is geared for novice and experienced network programmers alike. The early chapters provide a tutorial that brings novices up to speed quickly, and the remainder provides a detailed reference, with examples. These include complete source code for a number of useful applications, including an ftp client. Other topics covered include: how to create a dynamic link library to run over WinSock, how to port existing BSD Sockets source code to WinSock, and how/when to use WinSock's optional features. It also details debugging techniques and tools.

The appendices provide a quick reference for API essentials, illustrations of the TCP/IP protocol suite, an extensive error reference, and pointers to more information on or off the Internet. The accompanying disk contains the source code for all the sample applications, as well as a few other tools to help you with your programming tasks.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 656 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (December 14, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201633728
• ISBN-13: 978-0201633726
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,164,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Inroduction to WinSock Programming!, June 30, 1999

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This review is from: Windows Sockets Network Programming (Paperback)

If you are proficient in C and/or C++, and you would like to begin network programming, this book is for you! I found it so easy to learn from this book, that I wrote a simple chat server and client after about a week! I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to increase their programming power to access the world wide web with their programs.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An incredible book - extremely useful, May 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Windows Sockets Network Programming (Paperback)

This book is great! I am a VB developer who has been using this book to write some HTTP software, and this book has taught me all the theory I could ever want. This, combined with Microsoft's API documentation and a few good examples here and there, have allowed me to build the applications I needed and, more importantly, how to debug them. The organization of the book is not super intuitive; you really need to read the _whole_ book before trying to use anything out of it. In the first or second chapter, the author presents a "quick and dirty" description of how everything works. If you try to read only this chapter and start coding, you will slit your wrists. There's a lot of additional stuff (like WSAStartup, for example) that you won't cover until chapter four or so. However, once you've read the whole thing, it all makes perfect sense!

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Antiquated, June 21, 2001

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This review is from: Windows Sockets Network Programming (Paperback)

While this book has a lot of good information, it is out dated, sometimes wildly so. It continually hampers itself with discussions of 16-bit Windows which, while still in use in 1995/1996, was clearly on the way out, contrary to what the writers assert in the first chapter. Having said that, it is well written and the book deserves a second edition, dedicated to Winsock2 with nary a word on 16-bit windows.