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Title: Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. III Client-Server Programming and Applications-Windows Sockets Version by Douglas E. Comer, David L. Stevens ISBN: 0-13-848714-6 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 30 April, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $79.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: good for beginners
Comment: If you're just a beginner, or you're moving to Winsock from Unix; then the book covers all you need.

But does not include the details of the Winsock (overlapped io, dealing with multiple providers (for different protocols), async io, etc). So I believe that the title should not include "windows sockets version"

Rating: 4
Summary: Your Winsock book - by default - if you really need one!
Comment: I decided to write this note after a fourth person asked me about my favorite book for winsock programming.

The answer is, since winsock is built on BSD sockets, and what isn't in BSD sockets but is in winsock is mostly Windows operating system related, your best bet is still the MSDN reference material. That is, if you already have some background in TCP/IP from Unix platform. If not, and you insist on a winsock specific book, there are not that many choices I know of. So this is probably your best bet.

If you are a beginning TCP/IP programmer, this will help. Pretty readable and well organized. But most of the examples in the book are for the type of applications which have already been written and rewritten several times over in the world and you can always find those someplace on the web. I find myself going to back to Richard Stevens volumes and to the RFCs, online documentations at Microsoft and elsewhere. But then, that might be because I started my TCP/IP days from UNIX/SunOS/IRIX.

For beginning TCP/IP programming this can be a good book. There are some paragraphs here and there with sloppy editing - technical and otherwise - but within tolerable limits. And, that is why I did not give it five stars.

Rating: 3
Summary: More about design than actual code
Comment: The book is much more about how to design a service than about TCP/IP. If you want detailed explanations about sockets, you will not find them here. But if you want different scenarios to design a service, this is the book for you. The code snippetes are trivial and poorly explained.

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