Network Programming with Windows Sockets (Bk/Disk)

By Patrice Bonner

This book is for the programmer developing Windows applications running on a TCP/IP network. Referenced in Microsoft documentation, it contains everything you need to become a TCP/IP programmer in a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132301520
• ISBN13: 9780132301527
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Fun to Read for a Beginner in TCP/IP Sockets Programming

I found that this book very helpful for me to get a good practical foundation on TCP/IP Sockets. The book is well-organized as a tutorial covering from the basics to ftp & telnet protocol and implementation. The real fun is with the program examples which is manageable to get all the great feelings and fun. One note to make it work, as it is complied with Visual C++ v1.5. It will fail with fatal error during linkage. To make it work with Visual C++ v6, one needs to change: (1) #include "winsock.h" to #include "windows.h" (2) change link option (in Project | Setting | Link) from winsock.lib to ws2_32.lib. This is explained in "INFO: README for Win32 Software Development Kit, Part 1 of 2 ID: Q167799" of MSDN library.

Good on theory, good samples to start out with

With this book, without any previous socket knowledge, I was able to write a functioning socket application for downloading instrument data from a ticker server...however, when it came to a crunch, the samples provided with the Windows SDK were more useful than this book. Still a good book, though.