Platform-Specific Programming, UNIX, Operating Systems - Computer Networks

Windows NT network programming

Name: Windows NT network programming
Author: Ralph Davis
ISBN: 9780201622782

by Ralph Davis

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Overview

Microsoft's Windows NT has been accepted enthusiastically as a robust and versatile operating system for high-end personal computers, offering particularly powerful networking capabilities. However, to use more than the most basic of these capabilities, you must master NT's networking features and programming principles, and that means you need Windows NT Network Programming.

Windows NT Network Programming untangles NT's sophisticated and complex web of new technologies and networking standards. This book teaches you effective approaches for creating applications that run in networks consisting of Windows NT personal computers or mixes of PCs using NT and other Windows and non-Windows platforms. You'll learn, form a network programming perspective, basic Windows NT system architecture, and advanced programming techniques. This book also focuses on how you can build distributed Windows NT applications using the peer-to-peer networking APIs and standards Windows NT includes and supports, including:

Named Pipes
Windows Sockets
Remote Procedure Calls
NetBIOS
LAN Manager API for Windows NT
NetBEUI
TCP/IP
Novell's IPX/SPX.

Window NT Network Programming features as an example program a complete and professional generic peer-to-peer networking API for Windows NT, which coordinates and streamlines the interaction between your networking applications and NT's various supported API sets. This generic API greatly simplifies application development.

Down-to-earth instruction on how to create applications for Windows NT networks. This book details Windows NT's networking functions, the network programming interfaces and the input-output services available. A value-added disk includes a network-independent interface for Windows NT that will greatly simplify network application development.