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Winsock SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Vista

Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 2:12 PM by wndpteam
I've been asked a couple times about the socket option SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Vista and especially how it relates to dual stack sockets. The following doc link describes the basic idea of this socket option: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740621.aspx Read More...
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Winsock Header Weirdness

Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 3:35 PM by wndpteam
There are two main Winsock headers used depending on which version your application needs. There is winsock.h for Winsock v1.x and winsock2.h for Winsock v2.x and they are mutually exclusive. That is, if you include both header files you will see a lot Read More...
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Our Mike Flasko and Anthony Jones on Channel 9

Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 7:46 AM by wndpteam
There is a new video up on channel9 talking about Coding to support IPv6. Go check it out! -- Ari Pernick Read More...
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WSAPoll, A new Winsock API to simplify porting poll() applications to Winsock.

Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:49 AM by wndpteam
Hello, my name is Chad Carlin. I'm a software developer on the Winsock Test Team. Among the many improvements to the Winsock API shipping in Vista is the new WSAPoll function. Its primary purpose is to simplify the porting of a sockets application that Read More...
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Creating IP Agnostic Applications - Part 2 (Dual Mode Sockets)

Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:59 AM by wndpteam
In a previous post I wrote about how on Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn," IPv6 is installed and enabled by default and that when both IPv4 and IPv6 are enabled, the TCP/IP stack prefers to use IPv6 over IPv4. With the growth of IPv6, applications Read More...
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