- The examples from this FAQ have been collected and indexed here. These show
basic Winsock tasks, including how to compile basic Winsock programs. The
code encapsulates a number of useful techniques, such as dealing with the
complex Winsock structures (all those conversions!) and proper ordering
of calls.
- The samples from the highly-respected book Windows Sockets Network Programming
are available online
here.
- Stardust Technologies has made a simple
"chat" program available.
- The Vijay Mukhi Computer Institute offers a Winsock
tutorial. The English is a little broken, and the code uses variables
like "k" and functions called "abc," but what the heck, it's free.
- Jim Frost's "Windows
Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer" is a short introduction to
programming Winsock. It doesn't provide enough information to let you
build "real" programs, but it isn't 500 pages of dry technical material,
either.
- Wayne Hoxsie has made available a skeleton Winsock program
that uses BSD-style blocking sockets and threads.
- Lewis Napper has made available the source code from
his fine book, WinSock 2.0.
- Donald C. Asonye has a collection of small Winsock programs
online. They include a full-featured pinger, a "finger" client and a
small FTP client.
- An earlier version
of WS_FTP is available with complete source code. The code is said
to be quite synchronous, and you'll have to extract the FTP code from
the UI code, but it may prove useful to you.
- Dave Cole has made a fairly-complete telnet program
available for free. Be careful about the license, though: it's GPL'd,
so you can't include any of dtelnet's code in your own program without
making your program free as well.
- Spencer Low has a page that focuses on programming Unix
sockets. There's a section of it that is useful to Winsock
programmers: the Sample Source code.
- Davide Libenzi has a page
linking to several Winsock programs licensed under the GPL whose
code may be educational. These include SMTP and POP servers and clients,
a very basic HTTP client, and a network packet sniffer. (The latter item
is reviewed elsewhere in the FAQ.)
- Felix Kasza has a page with
many Win32 samples on it, nicely organized into categories. In the
Network category, there are a few dozen items on the
Net*()
API functions, and there's an item on I/O completion ports. The author
wrote the latter item because he found the Platform SDK example less
than helpful.
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