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TCP/IP and Windows Sockets (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/6/2010

Applications access the TCP/IP stack through the Windows Sockets (Winsock) interface. Winsock is used to discover and use the communications capabilities of underlying transport protocols. It enables programmers to create advanced Internet, intranet, and other network-capable applications to transmit application data across the wire, independent of the network protocol being used.

Winsock provides access to multiple transport protocols, including IPv6, allowing you to create applications that support multiple socket types.

Windows Embedded CE implements Winsock 2.2 and is fully backward compatible with the Winsock 1.1

See Also

Concepts

TCP/IP Support in Windows Embedded CE

Other Resources

Windows Sockets