I am new to socket programming and I am looking for more info about what I can do with winsock.
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I am new to socket programming and I am looking for more info about what I can do with winsock.
Any kind of distributed program that requires two or more machines to talk to each other across the network. Say, for example, you have a program running on one computer that’s processing data and you want to publish updates to other computers from time to time. The processing computer can send a UDP datagram with its status, and programs running on other computers can listen for those updates.
As RichieHindle said, any Windows program that uses the network is eventually going through Winsock, although most use higher level interfaces rather than muck about with sockets directly.