Accessing the Internet

The Microsoft .NET Framework provides a layered, extensible, and managed implementation of Internet services that can be quickly and easily integrated into your applications. Your applications can build on pluggable protocols to automatically take advantage of new Internet protocols, or they can use a managed implementation of the Windows socket interface to work with the network on the socket level.

In This Section

  • System.Net Namespace
    Provides reference documentation for the System.Net namespace. The WebRequest and WebResponse classes in this namespace are the basis for pluggable protocols.
  • System.Net.Sockets Namespace
    Provides reference documentation for the System.Net.Sockets namespace, which provides a managed implementation of the Windows sockets interface.