Practical .NET 2.0 Networking Projects

In recent years there has been a huge growth in mobile communication. Most laptops now come equipped with wireless networking and Bluetooth as standard and ever increasing numbers of people are spending more and more time connected to networks (be they at home, in the office, or in their favorite coffee shop). These networks are, themselves, growing and becoming more ubiquitous. Today, the network is as much a part of your computer system as your monitor and keyboard.

This book addresses the market demand of novice .NET programmers to learn about, and build, networked applications - a subject very often omitted from traditional computer programming books and only dealt with at a high level inaccessible to the majority of the market.

This book rectifies that trend by bringing cutting-edge technologies such as GPS communication, Bluetooth and Radio Frequency ID (RFID) within reach of the mass-market. The .NET 2.0 Framework and .NET 2.0 Compact Framework provide a number of APIs for communicating through these technologies and this book demonstrates these in the form of a number of practical projects that readers can undertake to build their own network additions.