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Systems Programming with C# and .NET

You're reading from   Systems Programming with C# and .NET Building robust system solutions with C# 12 and .NET 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835082683
Length 474 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dennis Vroegop Dennis Vroegop
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Preface 1. Overview of Systems Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 1: The One with the Low-Level Secrets 3. Chapter 2: The One Where Speed Matters 4. Chapter 3: The One with the Memory Games 5. Chapter 4: The One with the Thread Tangles 6. Chapter 5: The One with the Filesystem Chronicles 7. Chapter 6: The One Where Processes Whisper 8. Chapter 7: The One with the Operating System Tango 9. Chapter 8: The One with the Network Navigation 10. Chapter 9: The One with the Hardware Handshakes 11. Chapter 10: The One with the Systems Check-Ups 12. Chapter 11: The One with the Debugging Dances 13. Chapter 12: The One with the Security Safeguards 14. Chapter 13: The One with the Deployment Dramas 15. Chapter 14: The One with the Linux Leaps 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using sockets to establish network-based IPC

Sockets are awesome. They are a bit like the Swiss Army knife for communications. The downsides of pipes and Windows messages are gone when you move to sockets. Of course, nothing comes for free, so be prepared to spend a lot of time thinking about error handling and memory management. Still, once you get the idea, sockets are not hard to use.

Sockets are endpoints of a connection over a network between two systems. Of course, the systems can live on the same machine, but they can also be at different ends of the world. Thanks to all the hard work people have done building networks since the 1960s, we can now reach all sorts of machines worldwide.

Networking 101

Computer networks have been around for a long time. However, each supplier had its own way of making machines talk to one another. Over time, standards emerged. As it goes with standards, there were many to choose from. These days, we have more or less standardized on setting...

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