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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SocketTools provides a private cloud storage API and components for uploading and downloading shared data files which are available to your application. This is primarily intended for use by developers to store configuration information and other data generated by their application. For example, you can use it to store configuration settings or upload backup copies
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A new update for SocketTools is available for download. Version 10.0.1218.1604 was released on January 23rd, 2020. This is a complete product release that incorporates fixes from the previous general release, as well as all subsequent updates. Refer to the release notes for information about all of the changes in this update. You can download
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Microsoft announced the Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms have reached end-of-support on January 14, 2020. These Windows desktop and server platforms will no longer receive updates, and it has been our general policy to end support for a platform that is no longer supported by Microsoft. However, it is
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A new update for SocketTools is available for download. Version 10.0.1216.1586 was released on December 20th, 2019. This is a complete product release that incorporates fixes from the previous general release, as well as all subsequent updates. Refer to the release notes for information about all of the changes in this update. You can download
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The System.SecurityException error occurs when a SocketTools .NET component is used with an ASP.NET application, displaying the error message: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy.
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Many server administrators are now explicitly disabling SSL and TLS 1.0, requiring TLS 1.1 at a minimum, with a preference for TLS 1.2. If your software uses SocketTools to establish secure connections, this can potentially have an impact on your applications.
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