Network Programming for Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Professional Series) - Softcover

Jones, A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735605602 ISBN 13: 9780735605602

Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

Practical explanations are given of Microsoft's networking APIs. This definitive reference covers the network programming interfaces available on the Windows 98, Windows NT/200, and Windows CE platforms. The CD-ROM features reusable code examples in Visual C++.

About this title

From the Publisher

The clear, concise, authoritative guide to writing high-performance, scalable Winsock applications using Microsoft’s networking APIs plus IPv4 and IPv6 Internet protocols. Discusses Winsock APIs and earlier versions of Windows networking APIs, plus advanced features of Winsock Direct for building massive, datacenter-scale applications. Dissects IPv4 and IPv6 protocols—with code samples and performance comparisons—along with new IP multicasting features such as the PGM, IGMPv3 and ICMP6 protocols. Looks at advanced features of Winsock Direct for building large, datacenter scale applications, plus important networking facilities built into Microsoft Visual C#.

From the Author

Complete coverage of Microsoft's networking APIs
This book is the first book to fully detail many of the networking APIs available on Microsoft platforms.

Section I is dedicated to covering the legacy API NetBIOS as well as named pipes and mailslots. We also provide an introduction to the redirector (which provides the basis for named pipes and mailslots).

Section II is the heart of this book which is Winsock 2. This section begins with an introduction to Winsock and its basic concepts and moves to basic Winsock programming. We also discuss the various address families over which Winsock communicates (TCP/IP, IPX, IrDA, ATM, and AppleTalk). Afterwards we move to more advanced topics such as IO models (blocking, non-blocking, overlapped IO, IO completion ports), socket options and ioctls, registration and name resolution, multicasting, raw sockets, Quality of Service (QOS), and service providers (both layered and name space).

Lastly, Section III discusses client side Remote Access Service (RAS).

In the appendices a NetBIOS command reference and Winsock error code reference are provided in addition to coverage on the IP helper APIs which allow you to perform such functions as gathering IP statistics, manipulate the ARP and routing tables, as well as release and renew IP addresses.

This book was written with Microsoft's implementation in mind and as such we provide platform specific information (covering Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows CE) such as differing behavior between platforms.

Practical code samples are provided for every chapter (including a working layered service provider and a name space provider).

Both Jim and I have worked at Microsoft's Network Developer Support so we are familiar with the types of problems developers face with Microsoft's networking APIs. We hope you enjoy this book and find it to be useful!

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0735605602
• ISBN 13: 9780735605602
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 704