One typical requirement for many applications today is the ability to transfer files between the local system and a remote server, and the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Hyptertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) are the two most commonly used Internet protocols for this purpose. SocketTools has components that support both of these protocols, making it a […]
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A new update for SocketTools is available for download. SocketTools 9.5 has been released and includes several security and performance improvements, corrections and updated documentation. This update includes additional .NET assemblies with the selected version of the .NET Framework based on the latest version of Visual Studio that is installed on the development system. Version
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When people think of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, interactive terminal sessions and secure file transfers using SFTP are typically what to come to mind. In addition to these common functions, SSH also supports securely executing a command on a remote host and returning the output of that command back to the local system. The
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Submitting an e-mail message to a Microsoft Exchange Server is significantly slower than expected, where each message submission can take up to 10 seconds to complete. This problem does not occur when submitting messages to other types of mail servers, including earlier versions of Exchange Server.
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For developers who are still using Visual Basic 6.0, the product transitioned into the non-supported phase of its lifecycle on April 8, 2008. This includes the Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions of Visual Basic 6.0, as well as those versions that were included as part of Visual Studio 6.0. Microsoft will no longer release service packs,
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A new update for SocketTools is available for download. SocketTools 9.4 has been released and includes additional support for Unicode in mail messages and changes the default message composition to use UTF-8 encoding. This update also includes several security and performance improvements, corrections and updated documentation. Version 9.4.9400.3105 was released on August 3rd, 2018. This
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A new update for SocketTools is available for download. Version 9.3.9320.2834 was released on May 14th, 2018. 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 total number of sockets that can be created using the SocketTools controls or libraries varies, based on the version of Windows and the amount of physical memory that is available. It is also important to distinguish between the number of sockets that can be allocated by a client application and the number of inbound connections
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A new update for SocketTools is available for download. Version 9.3.9310.2784 was released on March 21st, 2018. 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. A security related
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One of the questions that we often get about the SocketTools Library Edition is about support for C/C++ compilers and languages aside from Visual C++ and Visual Basic. As a collection of standard dynamic link libraries (DLLs), SocketTools can be used by virtually any programming language available for the Windows platform. The documentation is primarily focused
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