Windows Sockets Tasks

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Use Windows Sockets for network programming. Use sockets to send or receive data over a network. MFC supports sockets with two classes.

For information about Windows Sockets without MFC, see Windows Sockets in the Win32 Programmer's Reference.

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Basic Sockets

• Find out what Windows Sockets is
  
  
• Use Windows sockets with MFC archive objects
  
  
• Set up communication between a server socket and a client socket
  
  
• Derive from an MFC Windows sockets class
  
  
• Handle Windows sockets notifications in MFC

Advanced Sockets

• Use class CAsyncSocket for Windows sockets flexibility
  
  
• Create a CAsyncSocket object
  
  
• Manage blocking in a CAsyncSocket object
  
  
• Manage byte-order issues in a CAsyncSocket object
  
  
• Convert byte orders in an MFC Windows socket
  
  
• Convert strings in MFC Windows sockets

See Also   CAsyncSocket, CSocket, CArchive