The Windows Socket 2 (Winsock2) Programming

 

 

 

 

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This tutorial provides a kick start on Windows socket (Winsock) programming. It is not in depth tutorial, provided here as an introduction on the programming environment setup for Winsock 2. The advanced topics (and code examples) for Winsock 2 using C can be found at Winsock2 programming and the .NET version also available at .NET network programming (with C#, VB .NET and C++/CLI examples).

  1. Introduction

  2. Winsock Headers and Libraries

    3. Initializing Winsock

  3. Error Checking and Handling

  4. Addressing a Protocol

    5. Addressing IPv4

    Internet Addresses

    Some Note

  5. inet_ntoa() Function

    6. InetNtop() Function

    InetPton() Function

  6. Byte Ordering

    7. Creating a Socket

    Connection-Oriented Communication

  7. Server API Functions

    8. Binding, bind()

    Listening, listen()

    Accepting Connections, accept()

  8. Server Program Example

  9. Client API Functions

    10. TCP States

    connect()

  10. Client Program Example

 

 

 

  1. Data Transmission

    2. send() and WSASend()

    WSASendDisconnect()

    Out-of-Band Data

    recv() and WSARecv()

    WSARecvDisconnect()

  2. Stream Protocols

    3. Scatter-Gather I/O

    Breaking the Connection

    shutdown()

    closesocket()

  3. TCP Receiver/Server With select() Example

  4. TCP Sender/client Program Example

  5. Testing the TCP Client and Server Programs

  6. Testing the TCP Client and Server Programs in Private Network

  7. Connectionless Communication

    8. Receiver

  8. Sender

  9. Running Both the UDP Receiver/Server and UDP Sender/Client

  10. Testing the UDP Client and select Server Programs in Private Network

    11. Message-Based Protocols

    Releasing Socket Resources

    Miscellaneous APIs

    getpeername()

    getsockname()

    WSADuplicateSocket()

    Windows CE

    Conclusion

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