Conclusion

In Chapter 6, you learned how to create a socket for a given protocol and how to resolve a host name for the protocol's address family. In this chapter, we took that knowledge and presented the basic Winsock functions that are required for those connection-oriented and connectionless protocols. For connection-oriented protocols, you know how to accept a client connection and how to establish a client connection to a server. We covered the semantics for session-oriented data-send operations and data-receive operations. For connectionless protocols, you also learned how to send and receive data. Of course, we presented this information using only one I/O model: blocking sockets. In the next chapter, we will cover the other models available in Winsock that make it such a powerful API.