Andrew Krowczyk

(March 7, 2003) - Networking is one of the core tasks of enterprise-level programming, and for the programmer familiar with the C# language, Professional .NET Network Programming will provide the information to put network programming at the heart of their .NET applications. The following is an excerpt from this recent book from Wrox Press. A File Transfer Application We have seen how to use the UdpClient class to send and receive datagrams, and we created a chat application using the same principle. Next, we'll see how to transfer a file and serialized object using UdpClient. The sender and receiver programs are divided into two logical parts. In the first part, the sender sends file details (namely the file extension and file size) to the receiver(s) as a serialized object, and in the second part the actual file is sent to the destination. In the receiver, the fir... (more)