The FCL includes a number of types that make accessing networked
resources easy. Offering different levels of abstraction, these types
allow an application to ignore much of the detail normally required
to access networked resources while retaining a high degree of
control.
This chapter describes the core networking support in the FCL, and
provides numerous examples leveraging the predefined classes. The
types mentioned in this section all exist in the
System.Net and
System.Net.Sockets namespaces.
