C# 0 The Complete Reference

System.Net

 are also provided. For example, low-level 

networking control through sockets is found in 

System.Net.Sockets

. Mail support is found 

in

System.Net.Mail

. Support for secure network streams is found in 

System.Net.Security

.

Several other nested namespaces provide additional functionality. Another important 

networking-related namespace is 

System.Web

. It (and its nested namespaces) support 

ASP.NET-based network applications.

Although the .NET Framework offers great flexibility and many options for networking, 

for many applications the functionality provided by 

System.Net

 is a best choice. It offers 

both convenience and ease-of-use. For this reason, 

System.Net

is the namespace we will be 

using in this chapter.