Windows Sockets Network Programming

If you want to know how MFC implement Windows Sockets and want to understand TCP/IP deeply, this book is for you. Reading this book you will be able to write professional internet applications without MFC. You will find tips and functions descriptions that are not in MSDN. It's really a MUST!

If you are proficient in C and/or C++, and you would like to begin network programming, this book is for you! I found it so easy to learn from this book, that I wrote a simple chat server and client after about a week! I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to increase their programming power to access the world wide web with their programs.

This book is great! I am a VB developer who has been using this book to write some HTTP software, and this book has taught me all the theory I could ever want. This, combined with Microsoft's API documentation and a few good examples here and there, have allowed me to build the applications I needed and, more importantly, how to debug them. The organization of the book is not super intuitive; you really need to read the _whole_ book before trying to use anything out of it. In the first or second chapter, the author presents a "quick and dirty" description of how everything works. If you try to read only this chapter and start coding, you will slit your wrists. There's a lot of additional stuff (like WSAStartup, for example) that you won't cover until chapter four or so. However, once you've read the whole thing, it all makes perfect sense!

If you want to learn about WinSock API and the WinSock programming tactics this book is very good. However, I found few errors which are not very critical, in the examples. I never compiled the programs that comes with it but used the examples and theory learn about WinSock interface. When I started to read this book I have already had some experiance in BSD sockets and my intention as a Unix programmer was to learn the Windows implementation of Socket. For that purpose, this book was extreamly helpfull for me.

This is a great book! Does a wonderful job of:- introducing Internet concepts - covering Winsocket programming- giving working executable and sample source code for numerous internet apps including one for an FTP implementation on diskette that was described in deeper detail in the book- giving pointers to more information (RFC's, etc) Edition I had only covers 16 bit C, and didn't address firewalls or proxy servers.But if you are doing 32 bit and are using the Microsoft library calls to FTP, this book does a great job of covering the nuts and bolts of what those library calls have to do.Would make a great graduate level college text book covering Internet and FTP.