Intended Audience

This guide is for software developers and project managers who want to know how SmartSockets and the SmartSockets .NET API can help them build distributed applications with program-to-program communication.

Some prerequisite knowledge is needed to understand the concepts and examples in this guide:

basic knowledge of the Windows operating system

working knowledge of the Microsoft .NET Framework

understanding of general messaging and publish/subscribe concepts and terminology

understanding of the SmartSockets messaging and publish/subscribe concepts described in the TIBCO SmartSockets User’s Guide