Internet Programming With Microsoft Apis: Develop Applications Using Internet Control Pack

by Arthur Griffith

Geared toward C++ and Visual Basic programmers, this text aims to teach Windows programmers everything they need to know to write Windows NT and Windows 95 Internet client applications. No prior knowledge of the Internet is necessary because the book includes enough Internet concepts and background information to write the programs. Set up in a reference book format, it is filled with tutorials. There is an alphabetic list of every function in the Windows Internet API and the WinSock API, with a description and an example for each entry. An extensive glossary defines every term used in the book, in addition to many other terms. Descriptions of the inner workings of the TCP/IP protocols teach readers about e-mail (SMTP, POP3 and MIME), remote file access (FTP and Telnet), the Web (HTTP) and Internet searching (Gopher).

700 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 1996