looking for samples

[usfinecats]

Can someone suggest a couple of samples of the following:

I have an normal windows unmanged c++ App that will open a session with my
server and exchange some info. That is the app sends some info to the server
and the server responds with either an answer (other info) or an error
message .

I'd like to see a simple skeleton of such an app. Should the server side
use IIS?
Are there important pitfalls with this. I've got plenty of experience with
writing code, but somehow I've avoided internet applications.


Where should I be looking for info about doing this?

TIA.
--
Gak -
Finecats

[Luke Zhang [MSFT]]

Hello Gak,

I think there are a lot of solution for such an issue. For example, without
IIS, you can create a server appliaction with Sockets and communicate with
TCP. For a solution with IIS (much easy to implment), you may consider a
solution with Web service. For example, a .NET web service running on IIS.
The client can be .NET application or an unmanaged C++ application based on
SOAP toolkit.

Following newsgroup should be best place for further questions on Sockets
on Web Service:

microsoft.public.win32.programmer.networks
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.webservic e

If there is any questions, please feel free to let us know.

Sincerely,

Luke Zhang

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[Luke Zhang [MSFT]]

Hello,

[url]www.codeproject.com[/url] should be a good place to find such sample, I performed
a search on it and here are what I found:

A reusable, high performance, socket server class - Part 1
[url]http://www.codeproject.com/internet/jbsocketserver1.asp[/url]

Server Client Sockets
[url]http://www.codeproject.com/internet/server_client_sockets.asp[/url]

You may refer to it to see if it will help. And here is the complete
reference of winsock:

[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winsock/win[/url]
sock/winsock_reference.asp

Sincerely,

Luke Zhang

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