Summary

The networking classes exposed in the class library represent a very powerful tool for the Visual Basic .NET developer. The ease with which developers can perform complex operations, coupled with the capability to write low-level network functions, represents a large step forward from Visual Basic's previous abilities in this arena.

In this chapter, we examined:

  • Socket programming using the System.Net.Sockets namespace

  • Sending and receiving TCP/IP network traffic using the TCPListener and TCPClient classes

  • Using HTTP-specific, as well as protocol-agnostic, classes to issue requests to Web servers and react to their responses

  • How to employ a typical .NET design pattern with the networking classes to allow applications to issue and receive ...

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