PowerTCP Winsock for ActiveX: Controls for TCP, UDP, Daemon, DNS, Ping, and RAS provide the building blocks you need for basic Internet application development.
These easy-to-use controls offer superior buffer management, the use of variants supporting String and Byte-array data, and optional blocking, making this tool exceptionally complete and versatile.
- Intuitive On-line Help
- TCP
- Daemon
- UDP
- Ping
- RAS
- DNS
- Multicast
Potential Uses/Applications:
- Build a personal stock quote application.
- Create a multi-threaded server.
- Write a custom client/server protocol.
- Create dynamic pages using a TCP Control on a Cold Fusion server.
- Develop inter-process communications.
- Build an lpd print server.
- Broadcast UDP packets to check for software licensing.
- Create a chat program using multicast capabilities.
- Use ping to continually check status of company network devices.
Sample Projects:
- Web Server a simple multi-threaded VB application serves up web pages
- TCP Client shows non-blocking interactive operation
- TCP Blaster shows blocking interactive operation
- UDP Client shows how to build an interactive "chat" utility
- RAS Client shows dial-up operation
- Ping Client ping any host on your network
- DNS Client demonstrates interaction with any Domain Name Server
- WebAlive compares the performance of 2 web servers (VB only)
- Chat Client uses a simple protocol and multicast datagrams to join chat sessions
Benefits & Features:
- Advanced Debugging
- Automatic error reporting through the COM interface
- Easy to use in blocking or non-blocking environments
- Advanced in-bound and out-bound buffering
- TCP Search Method supports variable length records and line processing, eliminating the need to search for termination characters and simplifying buffer management
- TCP Fill Method supports fixed length binary records, simplifying buffer management and reducing the code needed to send and receive binary structures
- UDP supports raw datagrams, providing the ability to access advanced protocols like ICMP
- UDP supports multicast datagrams, allowing you to send and receive streaming protocols, and to easily construct chat programs
- RAS can be invisible or visible, simplifying user configuration
- DNS Control bypasses Winsock system services, so you can query ANY Domain Name Server on the Internet
- Ping Control will confirm the presence of any host on the Internet, even if hosted server applications are not responding
- Controls can operate on separate threads, so Server Applications can be written using apartment model multi-threading features
What’s Included: The Winsock for ActiveX installation comes complete with the following:
- 8 Controls/Objects
- 41 Full Sample projects
- 8 ASP/ASP.NET Samples
- Debug Server for debugging and protocol testing
- Full MS Help 1.3 Documentation, including examples