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How do I retrieve an error string from WSAGetLastError()?

I'm porting some sockets code from Linux to Windows. In Linux, I could use strerror() to convert an errno code …

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How does WSAStartup function initiates use of the Winsock DLL?

How does WSAStartup function initiates use of the Winsock DLL? According to the documentation The WSAStartup function must be the …

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MSWinsock.Winsock event handling in VisualBasic

I'm trying to handle Winsock_Connect event (Actually I need it in Excel macro) using the following code: Dim Winsock1 …

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Substitute for forking in windows

I've been following Beej Networking guide and in the server section there is portion of code where it has called …

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What is a good tutorial/howto on .net / c# socket programming

I'm porting old VB6 code that uses the Winsock control to C#. I haven't done any socket programming and I …

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Winsock UDP packets being dropped?

We have a client/server communication system over UDP setup in windows. The problem we are facing is that when …

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winsock and x64 target

I am trying to build a C based application in 64 bit using the x64 target in the configuration manager in …

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Qt (Creator) with WinSocks (ws2_32)

I want to use an older code-fragment in my Qt-project, which is using WinSocks. I created my program with Qt …

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Is there a difference between <winsock.h> and <winsock2.h>?

I'm including as it's required by the MySQL C library. The auto-complete in VS2010 is also showing a - any …

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recv() windows socket takes infinite time - how to timeout?

I use file descriptors to find the readable sockets and go on to read. For some reasons, a socket that …

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