A program written against one vendor's product would not work with another's. Was "locked" into that particular implementation. The biggest limitation was that, upon choosing to develop against a specific vendor's library, the developer Prior to Windows Sockets, each vendor developed its own proprietary libraries, andĪlthough they all had similar functionality, the differences were significant enough to cause problems for the software developers that used them. The Windows Sockets specification was created by a group of companies, including Microsoft, in an effort to standardize the TCP/IP suite of protocols under Windows. Programming and get you started with your first application. This chapter will introduce the basic concepts behind Windows Sockets Visual Basic is positioned as a powerful tool for building comprehensive Internet-aware applications quickly and easily.
Standard for network programming in the Windows environment. With the acceptance of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) as a standard platform-independent network protocol, and the explosive growth of the Internet, the Windows Sockets API (application program interface) has emerged as the
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