How can I send data over the internet using a socket?

Question

I would like to send data over internet through a desktop application. I know a little bit about sockets. I have transferred the data within the LAN, but now I want to trans

Answer 1

Visual Studio has a lot of well made facilities for creating and consuming SOAP XML Web Services. I'd look into it if I were you. Sure, there is some overhead, but coding against it is extremely easy.

Of course, I'm not sure how well that would scale if you had to transfer, say, tens or hundreads of megabytes of data across slow internet connections. It does offer asynchronous I/O, but I don't think you can get a progress indicator, and there most definately isn't a resume functionality.

Added: You can also continue using your socket. There is no extra work invloved for connecting to a server across the internet. Just specify the server's IP address, and away you go. Your OS will take care of all the gory details like routers, missing packets, etc.