Windows Sockets Network Programming (Paperback)

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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

Product Description

A growing number of the 90,000 network programmers who bought Rich Stevens' UNIX Network Programming need to address a topic not covered by this classic--how to deal with Windows Sockets, also known as WinSock. This book is the defintive word on WinSock, offering a complete tutorial on how to work with Windows Sockets and sample code, which will be available on the Internet.

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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: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #647,408 in Books (See Bestsellers 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

By A Customer

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 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!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Antiquated, June 21, 2001

By	GatoRat (United States) - See all my reviews

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.