Summary

This chapter introduced the basics of programming with the UDP and TCP protocol over IPv4 and IPv6. We began by introducing the protocols themselves and continued with an introduction to the Socket class, followed by advanced topics such as socket options, IP multicasting, and raw sockets. The last few sections covered the TcpClient , TcpListener , and UdpClient classes, which are very basic classes for TCP and UDP networking. The topics in this chapter mostly covered the client-side aspect of network programming. The next chapter will cover in detail the server side of socket programming, and it will go into detail about asynchronous socket operations.