SocketWrench

What's new in SocketTools V7.1?
SocketTools 7.1 includes a number of corrections and improvements. In particular, some internal changes have been made that will generally improve performance over high-speed Internet connections and local networks. Also improved is compatibility with IPv6. Some security and compatibility issues with older versions of Windows have been addressed, primarily Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, with the new networking code in version 7. It also includes updates to the documentation and examples.

What's new in SocketWrench V7.0?
Now includes both 32-bit and 64-bit components, supports IPv4 and IPv6 network connections, and includes all of the security features that were previously only available in the Secure Edition products. All three SocketWrench Editions have been rolled into one product which includes .NET, ActiveX, DLL, and the Internet Server component.

Visual Studio 2010 Update - Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010, which includes a new IDE, language features and a new version of the .NET Framework. The SocketTools .NET, SocketWrench .NET, Catalyst File Transfer .NET and Catalyst Internet Mail .NET products have been updated to include new assemblies and example programs for Visual Studio 2010.

What's new in SocketWrench .NET V6.0 SP3?

SocketTools 6.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released which includes updates for all of the components, documentation and examples.

What's new in SocketWrench .NET V6.0?

SocketWrench .NET 6.0 has been released and offers developers exciting new features, improved performance and full compatibility with the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems. The version 6.0 components are compatible with version 4.0 and 5.0 and support side-by-side deployment, simplifying the upgrade process so that you can spend your time improving your software, not rewriting it.

SocketWrench Features

• An interface that is very similar to the SocketWrench COM interface 
• Low resource utilization and no external dependencies on third-party libraries 
• An interface design that greatly simplifies the development of networking applications 
• Support for both synchronous and asynchronous network connections
• Easily create both secure client and server applications 
• Support for the standard SSL and TLS security protocols with 128-bit encryption 
• Support for client certificates when required by the remote host
• Support for both implicit and explicit SSL and TLS connections 
• Thread-safe implementation with full support for multithreaded applications
• An extensive Developer's Guide and online Technical Reference
• A professional technical support staff and extensive online support resources
• No runtime licensing fees or additional royalties

SocketWrench Overview

SocketWrench enables developers to quickly and easily build client-server applications using the industry-standard TCP and UDP protocols. SocketWrench offers a significantly reduced learning curve and programmers who have no experience writing network applications can get up to speed quickly. The documentation includes a comprehensive Developer's Guide, along with the Technical Reference and example programs to help you become productive right away.

The class provides a high-level interface that allows you to easily do things like read and write arbitrary streams of data using the ReadStream and WriteStream methods, as well as stream the data to a disk file using the StoreStream method. There's also methods that allow you to essentially treat the socket stream as a text file using the ReadLine and WriteLine methods. SocketWrench .NET also provides lower-level access to the socket, as well as support for datagram (UDP) sockets.

SocketWrench has integrated support for secure, encrypted connections using the industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols. There's no need for you to understand the details of certificate management, data encryption or how the security protocols work. Secure sessions can be established just by setting a few properties and SocketWrench takes care of the rest. You can easily create secure client and server applications, and there's support for advanced features like client certificates and protocol selection.

Included with SocketWrench are debugging facilities that let you log every socket operation, including hex-dumps of the data being sent and received without depending on external utilities. Trace logging is something that's built-in to SocketWrench and makes it very simple to implement; you can even enable this on your target client systems so that your end users can send you back log files and our technical support staff can help you analyze problems. This ensures that potential problems will be resolved in a shorter timeframe, impressing your customers and improving the overall reliability of your software.