Add network capabilities to any Windows or .NET application

ActiveSocket is a Network Communication control for Windows developers. It features: HTTP, HTTPs, FTP, TFTP, ICMP Ping, RSH, SSH, SNMP v1/v2c (Get, GetNext, Set), SNMP Traps, TCP, UDP, Telnet, IP-to-Country, NTP, Wake-On-LAN and more. The product can be installed on the follwoing platforms: Windows 2008, Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000. It supports both 32- and 64 bits Windows Operating Systems.


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With ActiveSocket, you can use the following objects:

Icmp	See if you can reach another computer and determine how long it takes.
Http	Read web pages, analyze the contents. Supports HTTP-Post, proxy servers, SSL, password protected sites, etc.
Ftp/FtpFile	Log on to any FTP server, get/put files.
Tftp	Get/put files from/to a remote TFTP host.
DnsServer/DnsRecord	Query servers running a domain name service (DNS).
Msn	Connect to Microsoft's Live Messenger Service and send a basic message to one or more MSN recipients.
Ntp	Query NTP time servers and retrieve the actual date and time.
Ssh	Run commands or scripts on a remote UNIX or LINUX computer in a secure way using SSH. Use a login and password or private key to logon.
Rsh	Run commands or scripts on a remote UNIX or LINUX computer through RSH.
SnmpManager	Use SNMP operations Get, GetNext, Set and Trap; supports SNMP v1 and SNMP v2c.
SnmpTrapManager	Send and receive SNMP traps to/from SNMP agents in the network. Support for SNMP v1 and SNMP v2c.
SnmpMibBrowser	Load a MIB database into memory and iterate over all objects and view all properties.
Tcp	Write your own TCP-based client/server applications or Tenet application.
Udp	Create your UDP-based client/server applications; create UDP-based broadcast application.
IPtoCountry	Translates IP address to countries. Use it for web server log analysis, marketing purposes etc.
Wake-On-LAN	Wake up (power-up) machines on your LAN, based on their MAC address.

ActiveSocket ships with a service to receive incoming traps in the background:

SNMP Trap Receiver Service	Receive incoming traps in the background and save them in a database.

ActiveSocket includes samples for many development tools, including:

Visual Basic .NET. More »
Visual C# .NET. More »
ASP .NET (VB). More »
ASP .NET (CSharp). More »
Visual Basic 5.x/6.x. More »
ASP 2.x . More »
Visual C++ 5.x/6.x - Windows based applications. More »
VBScript. More »
Powershell 1.0. More »
HTML. More »
Delphi 7.x or higher. More »
PHP. More »
ColdFusion. More »
Any other ActiveX/COM container application.

Software Requirements

ActiveSocket is available as a 32-bit component and as a 64-bit component (both part of the product):

ASocket.dll - 32-bit component;
ASocketx64.dll - 64-bit component.

ActiveSocket runs on the following Operating Systems:

Windows 2008 - 32 bit and 64 bit;
Windows 2003 - 32 bit and 64 bit;
Windows 2000 - 32 bit;.
Windows 7 - 32 bit and 64 bit;
Windows Vista - 32 bit and 64 bit;
Windows XP - 32 bit and 64 bit.

Standard License, Professional License, Distribution License

There are three different licenses for the ActiveSocket Toolkit: Standard License, Professional License and Distribution License:

	Standard License	Professional License	Distribution License
ICMP	X	X	X
HTTP(s)	X	X	X
FTP	X	X	X
TFTP	X	X	X
Telnet	X	X	X
Socket	X	X	X
IPtoCountry	X	X	X
DNS	-	X	X
NTP	-	X	X
SSH	-	X	X
RSH	-	X	X
SNMP	-	X	X
SNMP Traps	-	X	X
SNMP MIB Browser	-	X	X
Wake-On-LAN	-	X	X
Use it on any PC/Server in your organization	-	X	X
Distribution of component	-	-	X

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