SocketWrench .NET Edition

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Develop TCP/IP networking applications in .NET. SocketWrench .NET Edition is a managed code class that simplifies the task of developing TCP/IP networking applications in Visual Studio .NET using any of the available programming languages such as Visual Basic and C#. SocketWrench is ideal for the developer who requires the features and functionality of the native socket classes, without the inherent complexities and learning curve typically involved with network programming. The class provides a comprehensive interface that makes it easy to build both client and server applications, with full support for the TCP and UDP protocols as well as raw sockets.

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SocketWrench .NET Edition V5.0 SP3

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What's new in SocketWrench .NET Edition V5.0 SP3?

• Service Pack 3 has been released and offers developers new features, improved performance and full compatibility with the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems.

SocketWrench .NET Features

• Managed code class written in C#, compatible with any Visual Studio.NET language 
• 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 .NET Overview

SocketWrench .NET enables developers to quickly and easily build client-server applications using the industry-standard TCP and UDP protocols. Unlike the native .NET socket class which requires that you have a fairly good understanding of network programming in general, SocketWrench .NET 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 .NET 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 .NET 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.

For developers who have used the ActiveX version of SocketWrench, you'll immediately find yourself in familiar territory. The SocketWrench .NET class interface has properties, methods and events that are very similar to the control that you've used in languages like Visual Basic 6.0. It is important to keep in mind that SocketWrench .NET is a managed code class, not a wrapper around the ActiveX control, so there will be some inherent differences. However, whenever possible the class interface was designed to make the transition from the ActiveX control as easy as possible.