Arguably, the reason that Java has become so popular as a programming language is because of the way it has abstracted away the difficulties in performing input/output and networking operations. C# has taken the same approach and has provided libraries that hide these complications. The previous two articles in this series have focused around the different language structures that a Java programmer needs to know to build simple C# programs; this article is going to focus on a few C# namespaces dealing with I/O and networking, along with some common usage patterns of these libraries.
