Network Application Interfaces

There are a number of ways that network programs can communicate by using the TCP/IP protocol stack. Some of them, such as named pipes, go through the network redirector, which is part of the Workstation service. Many older programs were written to the NetBIOS interface, which is supported by NetBIOS over TCP/IP. Windows Sockets is used in many programs.

The network application programming interfaces (APIs) discussed in this section are: