Network Class Library Team (System.Net)

New Picture Hunt Silverlight Socket Sample

Introducing “Picture Hunt”, the newest Silverlight sample app.  This multiplayer game...

Author: Peter Smith in Redmond Date: 04/27/2011

Silverlight 4 Socket Policy Changes

After installing the Silverlight plugin, a Silverlight application is able to run on your computer...

Author: Aaron Oneal Date: 04/15/2010

System.Uri FAQ

NCL includes classes for networking related technology such as the base type System.Uri. URI’s are...

Author: Tratcher Date: 02/23/2010

UDP Multicast in Silverlight 4

In Silverlight 4, we have added multicast support. If you’re not familiar with multicast, here’s a...

Author: Aaron Oneal Date: 11/18/2009

New Performance Counters for HttpWebRequest

Performance counters! You can never get enough! And starting with the .NET version 4.0 Beta 2, we in...

Author: Peter Smith in Redmond Date: 08/07/2009

What's new in System.Net.Mail

What’s new in System.Net.Mail We’ve made a number of enhancements to our SMTP support for .NET 4.0,...

Author: jetucker Date: 08/06/2009

End-to-end connectivity with NAT traversal

Like street numbers for a house, the Internet was originally designed so that all network devices...

Author: Aaron Oneal Date: 07/27/2009

New NCL Features in .NET 4.0 Beta 2

We’re introducing some new features starting with .NET 4.0 Beta 2 that you may find useful....

Author: Aaron Oneal Date: 07/20/2009

Why does Silverlight have a restricted port range for Sockets?

Silverlight restricts the ports of outgoing TCP socket connections to the range 4502 – 4534....

Author: Aaron Oneal Date: 06/23/2009

Custom HTTP Authentication Schemes

Introduction My name is Chris Ross and I work as a developer for Microsoft’s .NET Framework...

Author: Tratcher Date: 05/05/2009

Functional Areas of the Network Class Library

If you are wondering exactly what is in the NCL, the diagram below should help. It’s a high-level...

Author: Aaron Oneal Date: 03/25/2009

Code Patterns for Online/Offline Network Detection

In the last entry I showed you why you should use the NetworkChange.NetworkAddressChanged API to...

Author: Peter Smith in Redmond Date: 03/23/2009

Online/Offline Network Detection with the .NET Framework

Imagine this: you have been working on your great New World Wide Web program. Your very first...

Author: Peter Smith in Redmond Date: 03/17/2009

FtpWebRequest compile with extended comments

This is a current compile of the team's existing blogs on FtpWebRequest. I am going to update it...

Author: Mariya Date: 07/26/2008

How to troubleshoot your System.Net code

Sytem.Net tracingOne of the easiest ways is to use the built in System.Net tracing. It is a matter...

Author: Mariya Date: 07/25/2008

Welcome to the Network Class Library (NCL) Team Blog

Delivering your managed networking experience. There is a chance that you have never heard about the...

Author: Aaron Oneal Date: 07/21/2008