Windows Sockets Topics

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This family of articles covers the MFC implementation of Windows Sockets. For background information on what the Windows Sockets API is, see Windows Sockets: Background.

What do you want to know more about?

• Windows Sockets in general

• Windows sockets in MFC

• Definition of a socket

• Uses for sockets

• Sockets programming models

• MFC socket samples and a simple example

• Sequence of socket operations

• Class CSocket: sockets with archives

• Class CAsyncSocket: wrapping the sockets API

• Deriving from socket classes

• Socket notifications

• Blocking

• Byte ordering

• Ports and socket addresses

• Windows Sockets DLLs