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Describing sockets 

 

Working with Sockets 

The socket components let you create an application that can communicate with other systems using TCP/IP and related protocols. Using sockets, you can read and write over connections to other machines without worrying about the details of the underlying networking software. Sockets provide connections based on the TCP/IP protocol, but are sufficiently general to work with related protocols such as User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Xerox Network System (XNS), Digital's DECnet, or Novell's IPX/SPX family.
Using sockets, you can write network servers or client applications that read from and write to other systems. A server or client application is... more 

Implementing services 

 

Reading and writing over socket connections 

 

Responding to socket events 

 

Types of socket connections 

 

Using socket components