Chapter 11. Networking
Chapter 10 describes how to perform input and output using streams and the MemoryStream, FileStream, and NetworkStream classes. This chapter takes these topics a little further and also looks at classes designed to help you access network resources.
One of the best ways of accessing resources over the Internet from a smart device application is to use XML Web services. The .NET Compact Framework includes excellent support for a smart device functioning as a Web services client, and this topic is important enough to deserve its own chapter later in this book. If Web services are not an appropriate solution for your application, you can access network resources using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) with the System.Net.WebRequest ...
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