Windows Sockets Topics

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This family of articles covers the MFC implementation of Windows Sockets. For background information on what the Windows Sockets API is, see Windows Sockets: Background.

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• Windows Sockets in general
  
  
• Windows sockets in MFC
  
  
• Definition of a socket
  
  
• Uses for sockets
  
  
• Sockets programming models
  
  
• MFC socket samples and a simple example
  
  
• Sequence of socket operations
  
  
• Class CSocket: sockets with archives
  
  
• Class CAsyncSocket: wrapping the sockets API
  
  
• Deriving from socket classes
  
  
• Socket notifications
  
  
• Blocking
  
  
• Byte ordering
  
  
• Ports and socket addresses
  
  
• Windows Sockets DLLs