SocketTools includes Windows Installer (MSI) packages which enable you to easily redistribute the components used in your projects. They are included with the developer installation package for each edition and available for x86 (32-bit), x64 (64-bit) and ARM64 (Windows on Arm 64-bit) applications.
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When you need to verify a connection to a server is secure, the OpenSSL toolkit can provide you with detailed information about the session and allow you to interact with the server.
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This article discusses the purpose of SSL/TLS server certificates and how to create a certificate that can be used for testing purposes on your own development system.
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OpenSSL is an open source toolkit that can be used to create test certificates, as well as generate certificate signing requests (CSRs) which are used to obtain certificates from trusted third-party Certificate Authorities.
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When deploying an application using one or more SocketTools .NET classes, an unhandled System.BadImageFormatException error occurs with the message "An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format (exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B)".
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When upgrading or deploying an application using one or more SocketTools .NET classes, an unhandled System.DllNotFoundException error occurs. A stack trace shows it is the result of a System.TypeInitializationException being thrown when the application first starts.
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To redistribute an application created using one or more SocketTools components, the application must initialize each component with a runtime license key. This is discussed in several places in the help, including the Licensing Information section, the Initialization section in the Developer's Guide and the initialization functions and/or methods in the Technical Reference. It is
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When you build your first C/C++ application using SocketTools, you may encounter compile or link errors. These are usually the result of the project needing to be configured with the correct paths for the required header files and import libraries.
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SocketTools uses the Windows CryptoAPI and Schannel security provider to provide support for Transport Security Layer (TLS), which is used with secure connections. The latest version of TLS that is available on the Windows XP platform is TLS 1.0 and cannot be used to establish secure connections.
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When you create an application using the SocketTools 11 ActiveX Edition controls and you're ready to deploy it, you must ensure the controls you're using are initialized correctly. If you are developing with Visual Basic 6.0, and you've placed the controls on a form, it will automatically initialize the controls when the form is loaded.
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