Windows Phone 7 : Socket Programming

Question

Is there any support for TCP/IP Sockets in Windows Phone 7? I'm not having any luck finding it so far.
I want to connect to a port on a server and issue commands/receive responses

Answer 1

from the WM Phone 7 Dev FAQ:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsphone7series/thread/2892a6f0-ab26-48d6-b63c-e38f62eda3b3

Can I use Sockets for peer to peer communication?

Windows Phone 7 Series currently does not expose the Socket classes. While the version of Silverlight on the phone follows closely the feature list for Silverlight 3 on the desktop, it is a subset of those features and will not contain all classes. (It also holds a superset of classes not available in Silverlight 3.)

Answer 2

While sockets are not exposed in Windows Phone 7, the better alternative would be to use WCF.