Network programming for microsoft windows

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These days any developer is capable of throwing together a network server application, but developing a truly efficient and scalable server is akin to black magic for most. This update covers the material well, and gives the reader excellent advice on how to build better networking software with an understanding of what is going on behind the scenes.
My one nit would be that the examples don’t compile out of the box with VC 6.0 on either NT or Win2k, even with fairly recent platform SDK headers. After a bit of error tracing and reading the book, I found that most were written using new name resolution functions found in XP, and while they will work with older platforms, it required downloading the latest platform SDK… Since you can’t download just the headers, you’re going to need either a fast connection or a lot of time.
It would have been nice to have this documented in the book, the code or at least in a ‘readme.txt’ file. Since the SDK is available for free, why not stick it on the CD since you can’t work with the books material without it?

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If you need to do network programming on the Windows platform I strongly recommend you get this book. This book provides very complete coverage on the subject with good explanations and nice code samples. NetBios, Mailslots, Named Pipes, and Winsock are all covered, with the vast majority of the book devoted to Winsock. This is dense reading so expect to spend time with this book. But the payoff is a detailed understanding of network programming on the Windows platform. This book is for intermediate to advanced programmers only, beginners stay away. I hope this helps J.

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Having no prior Winsock programming experience, I took thebook’s TCP Client/Server example in the VB Winsock Control chapter,and in one day had a working application that is the basis for the project I’m currently developing. This literally saved me a full week of time, which is worth far more than the money I spent to buy the book. Here’s my thanks to the authors!

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The best I can say is that this book looks like it has a lot of information.
But what good is it if you have to wade through words «up to here» just to get at it? Do they pay these guys by the word?
It’s just not an efficient book.
If I couldn’t teach any better than this I’d get another job.

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Hi.
I bought this book about four months ago. I wanted to learn winsock and develop simple network programs for Windows.
This book offers everything I need to develop small scale programs such as an FTP client and large scale programs such as an FTP server. Anthony Jones and Jim Ohmund do a great job explaining useful winsock tools in detail via concrete examples. Furthermore, they demonstrate powerful non-blocking I/O models including WSAAsyncSelect, WSAEventSelect, Overlapped Model, and Completion Port Model. To top it off, there is a section where they give a recommendation as to which model is best depending on the project.
Network Programming for Microsoft Windows Second Edition is an excellent reference for winsock IPv4 and IPv6 programming in Microsoft Windows. This book definitely provides network programmers lots of tools. In fact, there are chapters that go way beyond the basics for the typical and simple network programs. For example, the authors go over registration, name resolution, multicasting, generic quality of service, winsock service provider interface, and remote access service. Lastly, there are two chapters reserved for C# and VB programmers.
I highly recommend this book for advanced C++ programmers and winsock programmers.
Kuphryn

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This is the only book, I can find for windows network programming. Unfortunately, stuff here is not well explained & if you are not a expert, do not expect to learn network programming from this book. Atleast not without a great deal of pain.

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As a professional networking software tester I have read atleast parts of most of the network programming books out there, andthis is the best of them so far. As previously mentioned the authors concentrate primarily on Winsock and mostly on C/C++ (as any serious network programmer should in both cases). Since this book does cover so many subjects though, some of the more peripheral subjects are mentioned relatively briefly, but hey, that’s what SDK’s are for. Concentrating on the main subject the authors do a great job of explaining Winsock and its application. I was particularly impressed by the comprehensive way in which they covered the differences between protocols, and between operating systems. It was also impressive (especially for an MSPress book) that they point out all the idiosyncracies and occasional bugs in the different implementations of Winsock. Obviously this book is intended for at least an intermediately skilled programmer, but should work well as a reference and an introduction to new topics (such as QOS, multicasting, and LSP’s) to even more experienced coders.
To allay the conspiracy fears of those Linux people out there, I am not affiliated in any way with Microsoft Corporation or MSPress.

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The book has been written in an easy style. The first few chapters in particular have been written in a simple and easy to understand manner. Not the kinds that drives away beginners.
The book makes a good attempt at being complete, it covers a good deal of IPV6 along with IPV4. Most examples are easy to follow and good to go — I copy pasted a lot of samples and they just worked.
Though it covers the basics of many protocols, given the impact that HTTP has on the internet, I think the book can dedicate a few more pages detailing HTTP mechanisms and Winsock based HTTP apps… Otherwise, this book is really good to have.

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