A new update for SocketTools is available for download. Version 10.0.1251.1868 was released on September 24th, 2020. This update includes full support for .NET 5.0 as well as a number of additional improvements and corrections for the components and libraries. This release also includes updates to the documentation and examples. This is a complete product […]
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Support for secure credit card transactions using TLS 1.0 ended on June 30, 2018. The new standards defined by the PCI Security Standard Council requires all payment processors and third-party providers to explicitly disable support for TLS 1.0 and switch to exclusively using TLS 1.2.
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During the installation of SocketTools, the error "Feature transfer error" is displayed, along with the message "The system cannot find the file specified". This error typically occurs after you have accepted the license agreement and entered your license information, when the installer begins copying files to the local system.
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A new update for SocketTools is available for download. Version 10.0.1245.1854 was released on August 18th, 2020. This update includes support for OAuth 2.0 authentication, as well as additional authentication methods for for the email components and libraries. This update also includes general fixes, performance improvements and new assemblies for .NET Framework 5.0 Preview 7.
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A new update for SocketTools is available for download. Version 10.0.1238.1812 was released on July 3rd, 2020. This update includes fixes and security improvements, support for additional character sets using the MIME components and new assemblies for .NET Framework 5.0 Preview 6. This is a complete product release that incorporates updates from the previous general
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In addition to components and libraries to access Internet services, SocketTools also includes a general-purpose library your applications can use to easily compress, encode and encrypt data. We have already covered support for data encryption, and this article will discuss the encoding and compression components.
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Microsoft has announced they will begin phasing out support for 32-bit Windows, and they won't be offering the Windows 10 May 2020 Update to OEMs for 32-bit systems. We want you to know what this means, and how it affects SocketTools and its future development. The important thing to keep in mind is that this
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SocketTools 10 introduced some general purpose functions which make it easier to encrypt and decrypt data. For the Library Edition, these functions were added to the Encoding and Compression API. For the .NET and the ActiveX Editions, they were added to the SocketTools.FileEncoder class. For technical details, refer to the online documentation.
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A new update for SocketTools is available for download. Version 10.0.1224.1762 was released on April 14th, 2020. This update includes new .NET assemblies which target .NET Core 2.1 LTS and .NET Core 3.1 on the Windows desktop and server platforms. This release also includes assemblies which target the new .NET 5.0 Framework Preview released by
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SocketTools provides an API and components for obtaining the physical location of a computer system based on its external IP address. This can enable developers to know where their application is being used, and provide functionality such as automatically completing information based on the location of the user. The connection to our location service is
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