The following projects are about sockets (a lot of sockets!!) and they can communicate with each other:

• DotNetSockets | C# | System.Net.Sockets
• Win32Sockets | C++ | Winsock
• WindowsStoreSocketsCPP | C++/CX | Windows.Networking.Sockets
• WindowsStoreSocketsCS | C# | Windows.Networking.Sockets

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• DNS Lookup
• Reverse DNS Lookup

A project about WinInet.

A project made to practice WinDBG.

More at http://monkeyweekend.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/set-a-breakpoint-that-breaks-every-time-a-function-returns/

Samples of how to call Windows Runtime projects from Desktop apps using WRL.

Sample of how to use cache with System.Net.Http.HttpClient. Only available from desktop apps.

• CreateMutex
• WaitForSingleObject
• ReleaseMutex

• CreateThread
• CoWaitForMultipleObjects
• CloseHandle

A C# Windows Store App to test:

• Windows.Networking.BackgroundTransfer
• Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient
• WinRT Certificates.
• Windows.ApplicationModel.Background.MaintenanceTrigger
• Bonus: Download funny animal pictures from Reddit.

A C# Console App to verify that Background Transfer is not supported on desktop apps.

• notepadAlias.cmd creates a command line alias, so np opens Notepad++.
• registerNotepadAlias.cmd registers notepadAlias.cmd to be executed at each command line start.

• Secure Channel exercise is incomplete.

• A mini HTTP server for Windows Store/Universal apps using WinSock.