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 in the Win32 Programmer's Reference.

What do you want to do?

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

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