The SLAR (vol2) on System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily
Looks like the SLAR vol2 finally made its way to book sealer’s warehouses which means everyone that pre-ordered should be getting their copy soon. I’d love to hear what you think and I’d encourage you to help your fellow developers by posting a review on Amazon and\or on your blog.
In honor of this day, I thought I’d restart the series sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 and .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 2 with some information on AddressFamily (the first type in Vol2)
public enum AddressFamily
{
AppleTalk = 16,
Atm = 22,
Banyan = 21,
Ccitt = 10,
Chaos = 5,
Cluster = 24,
DataKit = 9,
DataLink = 13,
DecNet = 12,
Ecma = 8,
FireFox = 19,
HyperChannel = 15,
Ieee12844 = 25,
ImpLink = 3,
InterNetwork = 2,
InterNetworkV6 = 23,
Ipx = 6,
Irda = 26,
Iso = 7,
Lat = 14,
MS Max = 29,
NetBios = 17,
NetworkDesigners = 28,
NS = 6,
Osi = 7,
Pup = 4,
Sna = 11,
Unix = 1,
Unknown = -1,
Unspecified = 0,
VoiceView = 18,
}
This list was derived mainly from the winsock header files. While the socket classes included in
v1 of the .NET Framework are mostly geared around IP-based communication, it is possible to
use the EndPoint class to support other protocols such as IPX, AppleTalk, Infra Red, and so
forth.
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Text;
public class AddressFamilySample
{
public static void Main()
{
IPAddress ip = IPAddress.Parse("127.0.0.1");
Socket skt = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork,
SocketType.Dgram, ProtocolType.Udp);
try
{
IPEndPoint ep = new IPEndPoint(ip, 9999);
skt.Connect(ep);
byte[] req = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("Test");
skt.SendTo(req, ep);
IPEndPoint rep = (IPEndPoint)skt.LocalEndPoint;
Console.WriteLine("LocalEndPoint details:");
Console.WriteLine("Address: {0}", rep.Address);
Console.WriteLine("AddressFamily: {0}", rep.AddressFamily);
Console.WriteLine("Port: {0}", rep.Port);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Error: " + e.Message);
}
finally
{
skt.Close();
}
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Press Enter to continue");
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
The output is
LocalEndPoint details:
Address: 127.0.0.1
AddressFamily: InterNetwork
Port: 4082
Press Enter to continue