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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
EAN: 9781590593455
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 1590593456
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 552
Publication Date: September 30, 2004
Publisher: Apress
Studio: Apress
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This is an outstanding title, being well-written and covering all the major considerations of .NET network programming. This is easily a 5/5 work.
— Jason Salas, Microsoft MVP, ASP.NET
Networking is one of the core tasks of enterprise-level programming, and this book covers key concepts, like network programming in .NET with C#, and building network-based applications in .NET. You will gain confidence to use the classes shipped with .NET, and eventually implement your own application-level protocols.
The text first overviews important background material, like physical network architecture, network protocols, the OSI model, streams in .NET, and stream access. Also covered in detail: socket programmingcomplete with introduction, and descriptions for use in .NET.
Finally, the book explores Internet programming, with a look at HTTPthe underlying protocol of e-mail and Internet. By the end of the book, you will also have learned to secure network communications in .NET.
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Not a bad book, considering it gives you the fundamentals of a variety of topics well covered in network programming. It is the only source of its kind I have found to address network programming without being almost exclusively tied to web development. I looked at it in light of it's C# orientation (because I'm a VB.NET developer), and found a lot of good basic coverage. Bewarned: If you are not an intermediate programmer, whether C# or VB.NET, it will take a little to get up to speed. The style is not bad - surprising, given the number of authors, and you CAN learn from it. I give it actually a 4.2-4.5, but I can't give it quite the 5-star rating. :-P
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It has been a long time since I've been captured by a book quite like this. The information contained in this book is as relevent as it was accurate. I can't believe a programmer would want to get into Network Programming without a copy of this book on their bookshelf. The author goes through painstaking lenghts to deliver industry related examples, and does a great job of explaining what his code does. A great read.
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Unfortunately, my expectations of this book fell flat when I went to compile some of the books source code, only to find it wouldn't. Now one of my biggest pet peeves of any programming book is getting source code from a book that won't even compile. I mean how easy is it to test compile a piece of code for the purpose of good editing?
So to be fair to the author's I waited a couple of months hoping for some errata fixes or new source code posted on the website. Nothing, nada, zilch, perhaps I was still expecting too much. Not wanting to wait any longer, I fixed the 58 of 59 errors in the one piece of source code I was interested in only to find there was actually a whole section of code missing. Again should'nt somebody have test compiled this crap before publishing the book? I know I thouroughly test all my code before I send it to any big bad end user, shouldn't we as programmers expect the same?
I am giving this book one star for the amount I did read, ... Read More
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There is a classic series, "Internetworking with TCP/IP" by Comer and Stevens (1991) that describes the Internet of that time. Just before the Web burst on the scene. The books have C code that show how to perform network programming.
Well, this .NET book reminds me very much of that series. To good approximation, the authors have covered the same functionality. But now using the .NET environment as a development platform. The language is fully object oriented, unlike C. Much of the book is taken up with showing how the default libraries/classes that deal with networking.
If you have indeed used C and Comer and Stevens for networking, then you should appreciate what this book does. It gives a far richer vocabulary of prebuilt functionality, to handle those tedious and error prone low level manipulations. These libraries mimic what Java also offers for network programming. So if you are migrating from Java, there is much common ground here.
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I was really surprised at the ease of reading with this book offered. As it seems to be one of the last remaining books left over from the old Wrox days, the "Pro" in the title would denote a very high level of material, often assuming a great deal of talent on the part of the reader and skipping the necessary introductory concepts and giving piecemeal code samples. This totally isn't that way at all. The book's back cover lists it as "Beginner/Intermediate" and it delivers on its promise. <br/><br/>
Put it this way - I'm a lifelong web dev who's been doing more and more client/server work, and I got a ton of useful information for my projects in this work. Even as the book starts to get into material for which there is no easy way of describing, the authors don't deviate from using simple English and practical, plainclothes, repetitive examples to ensure the readers gets it before progressing to more in-depth topics. <br/><br/> ... Read More
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