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PowerTCP Emulation for .NET by Dart Communications

URLs: dart-powertcp-emulation-net, dart powertcp emulation net, dartpowertcpemulationnet, dart

Add terminal emulation and screen scraping to any .NET Windows or ASP .NET application. PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V1.0 allows you to communicate with legacy applications or any server that supports VT-52, VT-100, VT-220 and VT-320 terminals from .NET. The Vt control is a powerful terminal emulator that enables you to build your own custom terminal emulation applications from within .NET. Built-in Telnet capability enables the Vt control to start a session with as little as one line of code. Also includes a custom font for support of VT graphics characters, a FontDialog control that displays all fixed width raster and True-Type fonts, ability to interrogate every cell for comprehensive style information, and powerful printing capability.

Features:

Includes all the capability available in PowerTCP Telnet for .NET

VT control emulates VT-52, VT-100, VT-220 and VT-320 terminals

Interprets text and escape sequences to display a screen that can be used interactively (like a regular terminal) or invisibly (to capture reports that can subsequently be screen-scraped by your application)

Screen scraping returns all the text in the scroll-back buffer as well as the display

Telnet control can be used to provide a real-time data source, and supports rlogin, rsh and rexec.

Numerous display options are available to customize your screen

Printing of the display is fully supported, as is the printing of postscript files and auto-print (prints each line as it is received)

Screens can be scraped to HTML, transforming all the stylistic information into HTML tags

Graphic characters for box drawing are fully supported

Key remapping is available using native .NET capability

Dynamic scroll-back buffer can save hundreds (or thousands) of lines

Option of using built-in Telnet or accessing an external Telnet component

Includes a royalty-free license

Integrated Help 2.0 documentation includes over a dozen tutorials and a comprehensive reference guide with full support for dynamic help

Some uses of PowerTCP Emulation for .NET include:

From an ASP.NET back-end or a Web Service, run SQL commands on a UNIX server, and display the results within the browser

Create a custom .NET application front-end for Informix or any database system

Develop screen-scraping .NET applications that run canned reports

Create a remote console for network devices

Automate terminal sessions and file transfers

With only a few lines of code you can upload data to a UNIX host, process it, and bring back the results

What's new in PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.5?

Cursor, reverse negative text and selected text are now visible when the display's BackColor is transparent

Edit Module keys now work when KeyPad.Numeric is set

Cursor position now immediately updates after seting from a menu item

Display now handles consecutive escape sequences correctly

Cursor becomes invisible if set to Transparent

Fixed a handles leak associated with the cursor

Fixed issue where Edit Module keys cease functioning after receiving a specific sequence in VT220 mode

Fixed issue where data would be added to the scroll back buffer multiple times when EnhancedScrollBack is true

What's new in PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.4.1?

Enhanced ANSI color support for the display. Users can now select from set color schemes, or customize each normal and bold (bright) color individually.

Added a CursorColor property, and a new "Bar" CursorStyle.

Added a BoldNegativeColor property.

What's new in PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.4?

Connect methods have been updated to take a serializable Session object as a parameter, facilitating the saving of state information within an application.

AuthenticateClient and AuthenticateServer methods have been updated to take a serializable Security object as a parameter.

ReadToDelimiter, ReadToCount and ReadToEnd methods have been updated to throw a new DataException, which provides any data read up to the exception.

A KeyPad.Pc option has been added for emulating the PC keypad.

Several samples were updated with a Model-View-Controller (MVC) design

What's new in PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.2.1.7?

PowerTCP Emulation has been updated with a new install and Visual Studio 2010 integration

What's new in PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.2.0.3?

Emulation for .NET now uses native Framework classes for SSL functionality.

Emulation for .NET has a new licensing model. External runtime license files are no longer utilized. Instead, a license resource is generated and embedded within the executing assembly.

Special Graphic Character fonts have been replaced with Unicode equivalents.

Line drawing precision has been improved and is now more proportional to the selected font.

Drawing techniques have been optimized.

Support for the true DEC Supplemental Set has been improved.

Auto and Controller PrintTypes now print black-on-white instead of using the ForeColor and BackColor.

What's new in PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.2?

Several display and printing issue fixes

Native .NET Framework classes are now used for SSL functionality

PowerShell demo script included in samples

What's new in PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.1?

Added Visual C++ samples for VS.NET 2008.

Product fixes in this release:

Fixed an index out of bounds error that could occur when BufferRows = 0 and an area of the display was selected and extended outside the bounds of the control.

The default encoding is now set to ASCII to prevent unintentional encoding.

Fixed various issues discovered using emulation test software.

Fixed scrolling problem when a CRLF was displayed outside the scrolling region.

All data is now printed when PrintType.Controller is used.

Fixed various issues with the status line functionality, including making it read/write for all emulation types.

Fixed an index out of range issue when Encoding was set to Unicode

What's new in PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.0?

VT52, VT100, VT220, VT320 terminal support

Key mapping simplified with a specialized KeyDown event

Screen scraping functions for extracting text from the display and scroll buffer

Display customization with numerous options

International character set support

Double-wide Unicode character support

Graphic characters fully supported for all fonts

TrueType font support

Support for ClearType and standard font smoothing

Comprehensive style information for every cell in the display

Automatic HTML conversion of scraped text

Powerful printing capabilities, including auto-print

Integrated telnet option sends and receives automatically

64 bit OS support

The Emulation for .NET product also includes Telnet, Rexec, Rsh and Rlogin communication components. Features include:

Auto-option negotiation with easy configuration options

Secure SSL Telnet support

Blocking reads that wait for defined delimiters, specifically designed for scripting applications

Start method for easily implemented mult-threaded applications, including cross-threading marshaling support

Logging event for easy debugging and session logging

Proxy support Auto-login capabilities

PowerTCP for .NET 4.x was designed with the following emphases:

Improved Asynchronous Support

Traditional PowerTCP asynchronous support provided a means for executing methods on worker threads, but this required a signaling mechanism indicating when operations completed. This resulted in difficult-to-maintain, event-driven code. With the new design, code is more self-documenting, uses fewer resources, and is more flexible to use.

Improved Re-Use of .NET 2.0 Features

PowerTCP 4.x has taken advantage of generics, improved support for X509 certificates, and other features introduced in .NET 2.0. Now that most users have migrated from .NET 1.x, PowerTCP can be upgraded without sacrificing backward compatibility. Of course, the .NET 1.x product line will still be licensed for use in the .NET 1.x environment to support legacy applications.

Integrated Security

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) security is integrated into the core product, so that SSL encryption is included in each new product.

Add terminal emulation and screen scraping to any .NET Windows or ASP .NET application.

Pricing: PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.5 1 Developer License - includes 30 Days Standard Support does not include Updates/Upgrades, PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.5 4 Developer License - includes 30 Days Standard Support does not include Updates/Upgrades, PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.5 8 Developer License - includes 30 Days Standard Support does not include Updates/Upgrades, PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.5 - Subscription 1 Developer License - includes One Year Standard Support and Updates/Upgrades, PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.5 - Subscription 1 Developer Subscription Renewal - Pre Expiry - includes One Year Standard Support and Updates/Upgrades, PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.5 - Subscription 4 Developer License - includes One Year Standard Support and Updates/Upgrades, PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.5 - Subscription 4 Developer Subscription Renewal - Pre Expiry - includes One Year Standard Support and Updates/Upgrades, PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.5 - Subscription 8 Developer License - includes One Year Standard Support and Updates/Upgrades, PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.5 - Subscription 8 Developer Subscription Renewal - Pre Expiry - includes One Year Standard Support and pdates/Upgrades, PowerTCP Emulation for .NET Source Code Source Code - delivered separately (requires a Developer License)

Evals & Downloads: Read the PowerTCP Emulation for .NET help file, Download the PowerTCP Emulation for .NET V4.5 evaluation on to your computer - Expires After 30 Days

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET WinForms, .NET Class, 100% Managed Code

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 2010, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual C++ 2010, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, Microsoft Visual C# 2010, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, C#Builder, .NET Framework 4.0, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 1.1, .NET Framework 1.0

Product Class: Business Components

Keywords: VT Emulation telnet rsh vt

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Part numbers: PC-514599-459502 514599-459502 PC-514599-459510 514599-459510 PC-514599-459516 514599-459516 PC-514599-459504 514599-459504 PC-514599-459506 514599-459506 PC-514599-459512 514599-459512 PC-514599-459514 514599-459514 PC-514599-459518 514599-459518 PC-514599-459520 514599-459520 PC-514599-459508 514599-459508

Mfr. Part No: P-3020-LIC P-3020-SOURCE P-3020-SUB P-3020-SUB-RENEW