It seems like ever since Marvel superheroes started clogging up movie theaters a few years ago, there’s been a significant resurgence in comic-inspired video games. Some of these are adaptations from their film counterparts, and most of them are lacklustre, at best. Why? Well, I would conjecture that there’s simply no need for a company to “waste money” on a title that is already being sold based on the title alone. Sure, Spiderman stood pretty firmly he swung from silver screen to home console, but those sales would have been great even the game itself was bad.
Prototype, however, does not have the advantage of a silver-screen revival. Alex Mercer wasn’t born on the pages of a graphic novel, and he wasn’t played by some hunky actor in a Hollywood film. He is an entirely digital creation, and since he has only ever existed in game form, surely doesn’t have much to lose, right?
Alex Mercer does not wear a cape. He does not have a fetish for winged mammals. He does not churn out pithy one-liners, or seek the affections of his high school sweetheart. Alex is a broken man. He has nothing but vengeance running through his veins – vengeance, and a mutant virus that gives him superhuman capabilities.
The nature of this virus is a complete mystery. Alex wakes up in a morgue, scaring the crap out of the morticians, who promptly call for help. It is not long before Alex realizes something is wrong. He is absorbing bullets as though they were tiny needles, and he can leap like a grasshopper effortlessly. Shaken and enraged, he sets out to find answers.
Alright, so the antihero with memory loss might not be the most original basis for a comic-book character. Even so, the narrative is presented with enough visceral texture to make it appealing and lend ample credibility. Heck, you might not even care that much about Alex, but you will certainly enjoy playing as him. While he isn’t immortal, Alex’s physical strength puts him on a higher level than Spiderman. Probably.
Despite being a multiplatform release, Prototype does not disappoint in the aesthetics department. The organic weapon looks awesome, if a bit familiar (Sarah Pezzini, anyone?) It is obvious from both the explicit violence and foul language that Prototype isn’t something you want to play around the kiddies. Besides, once they see it, they’ll be begging you to let them play it. That wouldn’t be very responsible, now would it? Cinematic music and crisp audio really hammer the combat home – even the simple act of diving from a rooftop just feels so amazing and liberating.
The vast cityscape makes for a wondrous playground. Let’s say Alex is darting through the city streets (at unnatural speed, mind you) when he runs into a squad of enemy soldiers. They immediately spot him, and open fire. Alex could dive right into the action, crushing the soldiers with his fists and feet, stealing their weapons and using them in battle. Or, he could rely on the mutant virus to grow weapons out of his own body – blades, for example. He can use these blades to puree his foes, then slurp up their essence to repair his own injuries. If the fire becomes too intense, he can use the virus to grow a hardened cocoon around his body. For a more tactical approach, he could dash straight up the side of a building, leap from one rooftop to the next, and stay low until the soldiers have lost contact with him. At that point, he could use his abilities to morph his body, mimicking the enemy and lingering among them. Whether stealthy or just plain cruel, the options in combat are pretty much limitless. Alex can throw cars at helicopters, or simply jump on them from above to smash them. If he’s bored, he can grab random civilians and carry them up the side of a building, dropping them down fifty stories below if he feels so inclined. Dark? Sure. Fun? You have no idea.
Granted, this sort of game absolutely begs to be given an online mode. Unfortunately, there isn’t one, so that will have to wait for the sequel. The biggest problem I can find in Prototype is the somewhat uneven pace of the action. Some of the missions are inexplicably difficult, while others are just plain confusing. Still, this isn’t enough to detract heavily from the game’s strong core design. It is absolutely the best game for wasting away those hot summer days. If you’re a fan of superhero games or just love gratuitous violence, you can’t go wrong with Prototype.
Welcome to the unique music of Darryl Jackson. With over 30 years in the music business as a performer, musician, and recording artist, I am happy to share my original music compositions as a solo artist with with you and hope you enjoy what you hear.
I am excited to have my music available for download for your musical enjoyment. All my published music is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and more.
PowerTCP Web Enterprise for ActiveX 1.9.2 has been released with new features and maintenance fixes.
An issue where websites retrieved using chunking may not be reassembled correctly has been resolved.
PowerTCP Sockets for .NET 4.5.4.0 has been released with newly added support for .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0 projects!
PowerTCP Mail for .NET 4.3.6.2 has been released with newly added support for .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0 projects
Resolved an issue where the component would use the systems native end of line sequence instead of CRLF.
PowerTCP FTP for .NET 4.7.4.3 has been released with newly added support for .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0 projects!
PowerSNMP for .NET 4.9.5.8 has been released with the newly added Dart.Snmp.Standard dll for support for .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0 projects!
An issue where spaces were incorrectly removed when only a portion of header text was Q-encoded was resolved.
An issue where attachments names were not parsed out correctly when the attachment part headers contained both a name and filename parameter has been resolved.
An issue where FETCH responses containing parentheses within quoted strings were not being parsed correctly has been resolved.
An issue where listings would fail when the PWD command is unsupported on the server has been resolved.
An issue where closing a secure FTP connection on Windows 10 could result in a hard crash has been resolved.
Details: A compatibility issue with some servers which results in the key exchange failing when using hmac-sha2-512 as the MAC algorithm and diffie-helman-group-exchange-sha1 as the KEX algorithm has been resolved.
Now includes support for UTF8=Accept and UTF8=Only server advertised capabilities so that quoted UNICODE Strings can be sent to a server.
An issue where some SMIME messages with a content-type of application/pkcs7-mime would fail to decode has been corrected.
Developer Note: The Listing.Months property has been removed and replaced by the Ftp.DateTimeFormatInfo property.
An IsSocket property was added to the SftpFileAttributes class to indicate when a file name corresponds to a network socket.
Dart.Ssh.EventArgs was renamed to Dart.Ssh.BaseEventArgs to avoid an ambiguity with System.EventArgs. Ssh.StateChanged and Sftp.StateChanged event-handlers will need to be modified to reflect this change.
Files created through a Post action will no longer be automatically deleted once the Post event completes.
This is release is a complete redesign, for upgrade notes see the PowerSNMP for ActiveX Release History.
Addressed an issue where 8-bit escape sequences were sometimes erroneously being processed in 7-bit mode
Addressed an issue where the control could hang due to an incompatibility with some printer drivers when the PrintType property was set to auto or controller.
Previously, the server component could intermittently fail to post another pending accept if a failure occurred during a previous accept. Version 4.5.1.1 fixes this behavior and a pending accept will always be posted regardless of any failures.
Model-View-Controller design uses fewer resources, is more flexible, and produces code that is easier to maintain
A Response property has been added to the CopyResult object to provide the server response for individual file transfer requests.
The transfer type will now correctly reset when the GetSize method is called and the SIZE request fails.
An issue with establishing a data channel when using a proxy and a secure connection has been fixed.
PowerTCP Emulation for .NET has been updated for Visual Studio 2012 integration and Windows 8 compatibility.
Addressed a rendering issue that could occur when switching from reverse video to normal in conjunction with resizing cells. This fix also resulted in a modest performance increase.
Addressed an issue where the Telnet control may hang if the remote server closes the connection during a read.
PowerTCP Sockets for .NET has been updated for Visual Studio 2012 integration and Windows 8 compatibility.
Clarified the exception thrown when AuthenticateAsServer is called and the connection is aborted before authentication succeeds.
PowerTCP Ssh and Sftp for .NET has been updated for Visual Studio 2012 integration and Windows 8 compatibility.
PowerTCP Telnet for .NET has been updated for Visual Studio 2012 integration and Windows 8 compatibility.
PowerWEB File Upload for ASP.NET has been updated for Visual Studio 2012 integration and Windows 8 compatibility.
An issue where the Load Mib dialog would not be displayed in the Visual Studio 2012 designer was addressed.
PowerTCP FTP for .NET has been updated for Visual Studio 2012 integration and Windows 8 compatibility.
The cursor, reverse negative text and selected text are now visible when the control's BackColor is made transparent.
Upgrade to the 4.0 licensing model. There are no longer separate "trial" and "licensed" versions of the dll.
A new FileSelected event that provides the names of the selected files server-side, immediately after they are selected.
A new timeout property which prevents uploads from waiting indefinitely for the browser to send data.
PowerTCP Emulation for .NET 4.4.1 has been released with many exciting new features and issue fixes.
A new AnsiColors property, providing much more control over how colors appear in the display. Users can select from commonly used pre-defined color styles, or fine-tune each individual color and its bold (bright) counterpart.
The cursor has been enhanced in two ways. First, its color can now be set. Second, there is now a fourth appearance option, in addition to block, underline and invisible. The cursor can now appear as a vertical bar, as in applications such as notepad.
PowerSNMP for ActiveX 2.9 has been released with support for all Data Execution Protection (DEP) enabled systems.
PowerTCP FTP for .NET is re-designed to be the most advanced FTP class library available, yet remains as easy to use as ever.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce the release of PowerTCP FTP for .NET version 4.4. This release features an innovative, elegant new design, making TCP/IP-based communications easier to work with than ever before. This enhanced library requires fewer resources, provides more flexibility, and elicits code that is easier to re-use and maintain.
Hordes of additional features including automatic listing parsing, recursive wild-card transfers and deletions, and synchronization.
Connect methods have been updated to take a serializable Session object as a parameter, facilitating the saving of state information within an application.
ReadToDelimiter, ReadToCount and ReadToEnd methods have been updated to throw a new DataException, which provides any data read up to the exception.
Several samples were updated with a Model-View-Controller (MVC) design. For more on MVC, see http://www.dart.com/articles_mvc.aspx.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce the release of PowerTCP Sockets for .NET version 4.3. This release features an innovative, elegant new design, making TCP/IP-based communications easier to work with than ever before.
Implement state-of-the-art multi-threaded operations. Create sophisticated high-performance server applications. Include SSL for airtight security.
Model-View-Controller design, which uses fewer resources, is more flexible, and produces code that is easier to maintain
Create servers with dedicate worker threads for each incoming connection, or make asynchronous reads utilizing efficient IO completion threads
PowerSNMP for .NET 4.3.0.3 has been released with several new features, including a new Manager Log event, enhanced IPv6 support, and new support for v3 agent discovery. There have also been multiple issue fixes, including an event handler fix in the Manager component designer, and strengthened support for v3 authoritative engines.
PowerTCP Mail for .NET has been updated with support for the 4.0 Framework Client Profile, as well as Visual Studio 2010 Integration. There have also been issue fixes, including support for decoding CP1252 encoded messages.
PowerTCP SSH and SFTP for .NET 4.x leverages a .NET 2.0+ re-design, filling a gap in the .NET Framework and providing an ease of use for developing a broad spectrum of SSH-2 file transfer and online applications.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce the release of PowerTCP SSH and SFTP for .NET 4.3. Some of the features include:
Improved Asynchronous Support uses fewer resources, is more flexible, and produces code that is easier to maintain
PowerTCP FTP for .NET has been updated with support for the 4.0 Framework Client Profile, as well as Visual Studio 2010 Integration. There have also been issue fixes, including the prevention of a ProtocolViolation exception that could occur during sequential transfers and listings.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce the release of PowerSNMP for .NET CF 4.2. PowerSNMP for .NET CF leverages a .NET 2.0+ design, providing the most advanced Internet Communications components available for handheld smart devices. Some of the features include:
Built-in objects, identifiers, traps, tables, notifications, and groups as defined in RFCs 1155, 1157, 1158, 1213, 2578, 2579, 3417 and 3418
Clean design, perfect for multi-threaded architectures, including cross-threading marshaling support
PowerTCP Zip Compression for .NET has been updated with new features, including enhanced Self-Extraction, and support for .NET Framework 4 Client Profile. In addition, many maintenance issues have been addressed.
PowerTCP Server for ActiveX 3.2 has been released with support for all Data Execution Protection (DEP) enabled systems.
PowerTCP Zip Compression for .NET has been updated with extended self-extraction features and maintenance fixes.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce the release of PowerTCP Emulation for .NET CF 4.2. PowerTCP Emulation for .NET CF leverages a .NET 2.0+ design, providing the most advanced Internet Communications components available for handheld smart devices. Some of the features include:
PowerTCP Mail for ActiveX 2.10 has been released with new SSL support for Smtp, Pop and Imap. This release also includes BinHex support and several fixes, including support for all Data Execution Protection (DEP) enabled systems.
PowerTCP Telnet for .NET CF 4.x fills the Telnet and remote access communication gap in the .NET Compact Framework by providing stream-based Telnet communication that can be plugged into any Framework 2.0+ application.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce the release of PowerTCP Telnet for .NET CF 4.2. PowerTCP Telnet for .NET CF leverages a .NET 2.0+ design, providing the most advanced Internet Communications components available for handheld smart devices. Some of the features include:
Start method for easily implemented mult-threaded applications, including cross-threading marshaling support
PowerSNMP for .NET 4.2.1.2 has been released with a new installer, VS 2010 integration, a new C++/CLI code generation feature, and multiple issue fixes.
PowerTCP Emulation for .NET 4.2.1.7 has been released with a new installer, VS 2010 integration and multiple issue fixes.
PowerTCP Telnet for .NET 4.2.1.1 has been released with a new installer, VS 2010 integration and several issue fixes.
PowerTCP Winsock for ActiveX 2.9 has been released with support for all Data Execution Protection (DEP) enabled systems.
PowerTCP FTP for ActiveX 2.1 has been released with several fixes, including support for all Data Execution Protection (DEP) enabled systems.
PowerTCP Zip Compression for ActiveX 1.9 has been released with several fixes and the following new features:
PowerTCP Emulation for .NET CF and Telnet for .NET CF are currently in beta and are scheduled to be released soon!
Both new products for handheld devices include Telnet, Rlogin, Rexec and Rsh connectivity components, while Emulation for .NET CF also includes a powerful VT display control.
Developers interested in trying these new products can download betas from the Emulation for .NET CF and Telnet for .NET CF product pages.
Support for the MONO Framework, allowing execution in many non-Windows environments, including Linux, Sun Solaris, and Mac OS X. See our MONO page for more details
PowerTCP Emulation for .NET 4.x fills the VT Emulation, Telnet and remote access communication gaps in the .NET Framework by providing a VT display and stream-based Telnet communication that can be plugged into any Framework 2.0 application.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce the release of PowerTCP Emulation for .NET 4.0. This latest version of the venerable PowerTCP product line gets a new .NET 2.0 re-design that leverages the power of the latest .NET environments to provide the most advanced Internet Communications controls and components available. Features include:
The Emulation for .NET product also includes Telnet, Rexec, Rsh and Rlogin communication components. Features include:
The .NET environment has evolved, and so has its users. Customers are developing more applications for ASP.NET, more console applications, and more service applications. Lacking UIs, pseudo-blocking and asynchronous methods are not relevant for these environments. There are also trends towards greater levels of customer control. For these reasons, PowerTCP for .NET 4.x was designed with the following emphases:
Traditional PowerTCP asynchronous support provided a means for executing methods on worker threads, but this required a signaling mechanism indicating when operations completed. This resulted in difficult-to-maintain, event-driven code. With the new design, code is more self-documenting, uses fewer resources, and is more flexible to use.
PowerTCP 4.x has taken advantage of generics, improved support for X509 certificates, and other features introduced in .NET 2.0. Now that most users have migrated from .NET 1.x, PowerTCP can be upgraded without sacrificing backward compatibility. Of course, the .NET 1.x product line will still be licensed for use in the .NET 1.x environment to support legacy applications.
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) security is integrated into the core product, so that SSL encryption is included in each new product.
PowerTCP FTP for .NET has been updated with UTF8 support and a new option for including empty folders when transferring multiple files. There have also been several issue fixes, including a fix to explicitly secure data connections to vsFTPd servers.
PowerWEB File Upload for ASP.NET has been updated to address an IE8 script loading error issue introduced in version 1.3.0.
PowerTCP Mail has been updated with numerous maintenance fixes and features. Included is a new UsePipelining property, permitting the user to select whether or not to PIPELINE to Smtp servers supporting this option.
The latest update to PowerSNMP for .NET provides two new features. First, a new GenerateCode method allows developers to extend the MIB at runtime, without having to load MIBs at runtime. Also, developers will have Intellisense for the extended MIB at design-time. Second, a new Traps property provides better access to the traps defined in parsed MIBs.
This release provides numerous maintenance fixes, including an issue with the AutoSaveFrequency property, and issues with multiple HtmlBoxes on a page in Firefox.
The latest update to PowerSNMP for .NET extends the ManagerSlave object with new Send and Receive methods, as well as addresses an issue with v3 communication.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce the release of PowerSNMP for .NET 4.0. This latest version of the venerable PowerSNMP product line gets a new .NET 2.0 re-design that leverages the power of the latest .NET environments to provide the most advanced Internet Communications components available. Some of the features include:
The .NET environment has evolved, and so has its users. Customers are developing more applications for ASP.NET, more console applications, and more service applications. Lacking UIs, pseudo-blocking and asynchronous methods are not relevant for these environments. There are also trends towards greater levels of customer control. For these reasons, PowerSNMP for .NET 4.x was designed with the following in mind:
Traditional PowerSNMP asynchronous design provided a means for executing specific methods on worker threads and marshaled all data back to the UI thread. With the new design user code executes on worker threads and data is marshaled to the UI thread as required, providing code that is easier to understand, uses fewer resources, and is structurally more flexible and powerful.
PowerSNMP 4.x takes advantage of generics, Triple DES encryption, and other features introduced in .NET 2.0. Now that most users have migrated from .NET 1.x, PowerSNMP can be upgraded without sacrificing backward compatibility. Of course, the .NET 1.x product line will still be licensed for use in the .NET 1.x environment to support legacy applications.
PowerTCP Telnet for .NET 4.x fills the Telnet and remote access communication gap in the .NET Framework by providing stream-based Telnet communication that can be plugged into any Framework 2.0 application.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce the release of PowerTCP Telnet for .NET 4.0. This latest version of the venerable PowerTCP product line gets a new .NET 2.0 re-design that leverages the power of the latest .NET environments to provide the most advanced Internet Communications components available. Some of the features include:
PowerWEB File Upload for ASP.NET has been updated to be fully compatible with Flash 10 security restrictions. When the UploadManager is configured to use Flash as an upload type, users are able to select and upload multiple files using a single dialog, as well as filter file types on the client.
PowerTCP Zip Compression for .NET has been updated with a new feature and several maintenance issues have been addressed.
The new Delimiter property permits files with names containing commas to be more easily added to archives.
PowerWEB File Upload for ASP.NET has been updated to address an issue introduced by the Adobe Flash update to version 10.
PowerWEB File Upload for ASP.NET has been updated with several issue fixes, including an incompatibility with pages that also permit file downloads.
Improvements include a method for redirecting that does not have the problems of Response.Redirect and a client side method which will clear selected files when AutoPostBack is false.
PowerTCP SSH and SFTP for .NET allows .NET developers to add powerful SSH-2 file transfer and online session capabilities to their applications.
With all the features our customers have come to expect, this new product is a perfect companion to our FTP for .NET, Telnet for .NET and Emulation for .NET products.
The PowerWEB line of products has been updated to fully support the first service pack to version 3.5 of the .NET Framework. A list of version numbers follows.
PowerTCP SSH and SFTP for .NET is currently in beta and is scheduled to be released in September, 2008!
This new product includes SSH and SFTP components, providing developers with SSH-2 online session and file transfer capabilities in C# and VB.NET.
PowerTCP SSH and SFTP for .NET fills a gap in the .NET Framework, and includes comprehensive samples for C# and VB.NET developers. Additional information can be found on the product page.
For developers interested in trying the beta release or being added to the release notification list, please contact Jamie Powell at jamie.powell@dart.com, or give us a call at 315-790-5456, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. EST.
PowerTCP FTP for .NET has been updated with several issue fixes, including tighter parsing of file listings.
PowerTCP Emulation for .NET has been updated with several issue fixes and improved support for Unicode characters.
PowerSNMP for .NET has been updated with several issue fixes and now includes source code for the PowerSNMP Free Manager application.
PowerSNMP for .NET has been updated with new features. Mib compilation has been enhanced to support identical names from multiple modules. A new Modules table provides information on a module's defined names, as well as its imported definitions. Variable values can now easily be converted to hex string representations using the new ToHexString method. Additionally, several maintenance issues have been addressed.
Dart is pleased to announce that it is a recipient of the Best Selling Publisher Award for 2007, recently awarded by ComponentSource, the world’s largest marketplace and community for reusable software components and development tools.
“These awards are based on real orders placed with us by customers in over 110 countries around the world, they represent the true global commercial software component and development tool marketplace survey for 2007.” added Sam Patterson, CEO of ComponentSource, “We hope that these ComponentSource Bestselling Product and Publisher Awards will help our customers further see how the components and tools that they are evaluating or purchasing are valued and purchased by their peers.”
Effective today, a free annual subscription for email support, product updates, and feature upgrades is available for customers that purchase a Developer License for PowerSNMP (ActiveX or .NET). Subscriptions are renewable prior to expiration date at 50% of the License price. Customers that purchased a PowerSNMP Developer License without a subscription prior to February 26, 2008 should contact Dart directly for pricing if they wish to add a subscription.
PowerWEB File Upload is a customizable, Ajax-enabled file transfer control for ASP.NET. This release adds new properties to the ProgressPanel control that allows it to be further customized, including support for multi-byte characters for localization. This update also corrects several issues reported since the last release.
PowerTCP Sockets and SSL Sockets have been updated with several new features. A Tcp WaitFor method has been added for easier implementation of protocols that employ message delimiters. The Ping component has a new Abort method, and the Dns component now supports multiple DNS servers. The Ping and Trace components have been updated with enhanced time precision. In the SSL Sockets product, remote host information can now be factored into connection acceptance decisions, as the CertificateReceived event now provides the remote endpoint. Additionally, both products now support 64 bit environments, and maintenance issues have been addressed.
PowerTCP Zip Compression for .NET has been updated with new features and enhanced performance. The new stream interface compresses, inflates, encrypts and decrypts "on-the-fly" with no buffering to disk. A new zip engine provides speed increases of up to 20 percent, as well as significant gains in compression ratio. Additionally, 64-bit Operating Systems are now fully supported, and several maintenance issues have been addressed.
PowerSNMP for .NET has been updated with new features. A new Static GetResponse() method optimizes performance for demanding multithreaded applications. Working with trap definitions and removing items from an Agent's list of supported variables is now much easier and more intuitive. Additionally, sample applications have been updated to demonstrate v3 support, and several maintenance issues have been addressed.
PowerTCP FTP for ActiveX has been enhanced with new Security options. Connect to any FTP/S server, whether its requirements are for explicit, implicit, or non-security connections. Easy-to-implement support for SSL, PCT and TLS makes PowerTCP FTP for ActiveX an excellent secure file transfer solution.
Recognizing the ever increasing need for Internet security, Dart has added all the security features of PowerTCP Secure Mail for .NET to its baseline product. In addition, comprehensive S/MIME support has been added, making PowerTCP Mail for .NET a complete solution for developing robust and secure email applications.
"PowerTCP Mail for .NET is a real value proposition", says Lisa Ross, Dart's VP for Sales and Marketing. "For a limited time, we will be offering this major capability upgrade with no price increase. $499 is very favorable introductory pricing when you compare us to the competition."
PowerWEB File Upload is a customizable, Ajax-enabled file transfer control for ASP.NET. This maintenance release corrects several issues and improves cross-browser compatibility, specifically on the Macintosh platform.
PowerTCP FTP for .NET version 3 includes new privacy, compression and synchronization features. Security features allow the use of secure (SSL, PCT, TLS) and non-secure connections. On-the-fly ZLIB compression is now fully supported, conserving bandwidth for slower data connections. Files can also be compressed for archival storage by setting a property, conserving server disk-space. The new "synchronization" feature only transfers files if they have changed in size.
PowerWEB File Upload for ASP.NET is ideal for any web application that accepts files from client browsers. Content management systems, online communities, and photo albums all require users to upload files. Where existing tools may not scale well or provide real-time feedback and control to the user, PowerWEB File Upload for ASP.NET provides a complete solution that scales, provides unsurpassed drag/drop/run operation for the developer's experience, and includes comprehensive runtime features for the end-user: multiple-file selection, realtime progress, the application of styles, and the ability to abort an upload are not supported by the .NET Framework.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce a new addition to the PowerTCP product line. PowerTCP Email Validation for .NET adds tailored email address validation to both traditional desktop and ASP.NET web applications.
This powerful product is ideal for any distributed application where validation of an email address or list of email addresses is desired. Mailing list maintenance, sales contact verification, and web form submission are a small sample of applications for this product.
This latest release of LiveControls provides greater stability, compatibility and dramatically increased performance under load. LiveControls continues to be the simplest, quickest, and most reliable way for ASP.NET developers to add AJAX interactivity to their applications.
Emulation for .NET and Emulation for ActiveX have been extended to fully support the encoding/decoding and display of Unicode characters.
Printing now fully supports Unicode characters and no longer uses the Courier font exclusively; now the print font will match the display font as closely as possible
Emulation for .Net now distinguishes between "standard" and "extended" keystrokes, just like Emulation for ActiveX
This release greatly improves browser compatibility and adds several new features. Zoom for ASP.NET now supports the Safari browser, and IE 7 incompatbility issues have been resolved. In addition, captioning support has been added, as well as UI improvements.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce a new addition to the PowerWEB product line. Sharing many of the same features of PowerWEB Zoom, this free product is ideal for hobbyists and developers creating non-commercial applications. By simply dropping the control on a page websites can benefit from interactive imaging.
Designed to meet the needs of Enterprise users, we now offer a subscription package that bundles 5 licenses, Preferred Support (One year of telephone, email, updates and upgrades), and source code for a single component.
If your company is concerned about not having the source code for components you purchase, ease their mind with this subscription. Access to source code will help you build better applications, and this license gives you one added plus: should Dart no longer offer the subscription or support for your product, you will have the right to retain a copy of the source code for your company’s use after the support has been discontinued. View the details by visiting any product pricing page.
Dart Communications is pleased to announce a new addition to the PowerWEB product line. This unique product for ASP.NET allows you to add interactive features to high-resolution images without needing to develop complex scripts or manually processing source images.
PowerWEB Zoom is ideal for any distributed application where the presentation of high quality, detailed images is required. E-Commerce, real-estate, asset management, and photo albums are just a small sample of applications that can benefit from this tool.
Dart Communications is pleased to present PowerWEB Zoom for ASP.NET, the first product of its kind to be offered for ASP.NET developers. PowerWEB Zoom is an Ajax-enabled ASP.NET server control that provides interactive panning and zooming for high resolution images. The following are just a few features found in Zoom:
Intuitive interface and on-screen tools such as a Zoom Slider, Compass Navigator, Magnifier and Thumbnail
Dart Communications, a provider of Internet Application Development Components since 1994, is pleased to announce a new addition to the PowerSNMP product line. This product gives Microsoft .NET developers an unprecedented ability to directly manipulate, send and receive SNMP version 1, 2, 3 packets. Developers can construct custom SNMP Managers, Agents and Trap handlers at a component level without concern for low-level implementation details.
For developers wanting to automate network management functions, PowerSNMP for .NET provides a multi-level object model that substantially reduces the complexity of building enterprise management applications. The Manager and Agent components are easy-to-add networking components for any application that needs to be enterprise-aware. These components use Message classes that aggregate low-level tagged types into strongly typed classes for sending and receiving management information.
“PowerSNMP for .NET builds on lessons learned from our successful ActiveX product,” said Mike Baldwin, Dart’s PowerSNMP product manager. “The new product provides advanced features such as MIB compiling that has never been seen at this price point before.”
Designed for both beginners and expert users, PowerSNMP for .NET provides comprehensive default behavior that can be modified for advanced purposes. Most noteworthy, MIB processing support is extensive. MIB-2 support is provided as intrinsic classes, C# and VB source code can be created from MIB files at design-time for inclusion in your project, and dynamic classes can be compiled from MIB files at run-time.
This release greatly improves usage of both the SecureFtp and SecureFtpServer controls when one or both are behind firewalls. The need to use Dart’s proprietary “FireWallReady” mode is eliminated allowing compatibility with 3rd party clients and servers.
This release focuses on the correction of encoding issues that were introduced or discovered since the release of version 2.9.0. For a list of corrections, please see the Mail Tool updates page.
A new progress event has been added that allows the progress of file operations to be monitored for files larger than 4 Gigabytes.
ViewStateCache mechanism has been added to greatly reduce bandwidth and to improve rendering performance, most notably in applications with complex or numerous controls
All PowerTCP for .NET products have been updated to support Visual Studio 2005 and version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.
With previous releases, inclusion of the separate POWERVT.FON file was required when distributing applications to target machines. If this file was not included, the default vt220_ascii font was not available.
The POWERVT.FON file is now included as a resource that, if not found, is automatically extracted into the deployment target's System32 directory!
For cases in which the targer user lacks sufficient privileges to write to the System32 directory, the POWERVT.FON file is still available for manual distribution.
Enhanced graceful degradation feature to allow LiveControls to still operate in environments requiring high security settings or in environments where ActiveX controls and plugins are disabled
By popular demand, an override for the Telnet.WaitFor method that accepts an array of strings has been added to the interface. Multiple tokens can now be specified and the method will return when any of these tokens is found. This method is useful when conditions allow for several possible responses.
In addition, WaitFor no longer closes the connection when a token was not found in the allotted timeout period.
This maintenance release of Dart's popular "PowerTCP SSL Tool" includes added support for certificates and other reported issues. Please visit the Update Center for details.
This release of PowerTCP FTP for .NET (regular and secure versions) includes routine maintenance updates as well as the addition of three new properties:
UseControlAddressForPassive property. Besides setting a record for our use of Hungarian notation, this property allows you to override the address returned from the server when the PASV command is sent.
UseIpSync property. The XP SP2 firewall enhancement does not respond correctly to the IP/SYNC signal used for aborting a file transfer (neither do many servers). Through the use of this property, your users can control the use of this feature when aborting a file transfer.
MaxTransferRate property. Since FTP file transfers can be processor intensive, customers have asked us to throttle the transfer speed. If the value of this property is below the actual transfer rate, the worker thread will be put to sleep each second to slow the actual rate to match this value specified by this property.
Version 1.1.2 of PowerWEB LiveControls for ASP.NET now supports the popular DotNetNuke development environment. The included sample shows how you can build a DotNetNuke module to take advantage of all the features DotNetNuke has to offer.
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This version of TextBox rolls up 9 months of routine maintenance into an update that also includes some neat new features:
This update incorporates the results of hundreds of hours of testing accomplished since our original December release.
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PowerWEB LiveControls for ASP.NET is a suite of 20 ASP.NET controls that enable software developers to build web applications that don't require a browser refresh. Just like the Microsoft intrinsic controls, LiveControls trigger events in code-behind, but do not require the client browser to be refreshed when data is sent back to the browser. This technique helps you create richer and cleaner web applications by eliminating the flicker and delays associated with a browser refresh, providing a smoother Windows-like behavior for the application. No need for Flash, Java Applets, or complex JavaScript, and extensive browser compatibility is automatically provided.
This technology is really easy to use. For example, just draw a LiveButton on your form, double-click on it, and update a property of any other control on your form. See for yourself how smooth the user experience becomes. Now, add an image, and you'll really see a big improvement. No refresh!
We've create a tutorial that describes and demonstrates this feature-rich product. Click here to see a "live" demonstration.
This release of the PowerTCP Server Tool is focused on improving product performance and usability in the FTPServer control. In the area of performance, upload and download speeds have been improved, CPU utilization has been minimized, and the 2 gig storage limit has been removed. To read about all the changes, click here.
Dart Communications is proud to announce the release of PowerTCP Ping Enterprise Tool. This new addition to Dart’s PowerTCP product line is designed to meet the specific needs of high reliability and high stress requirements. Using an internal multi-threaded design, the Ping Enterprise ActiveX control is engineered to operate in an environment that requires 24/7 uptime while conducting continous pings against one or more devices. Using the asynchronous capability of the control, numerous pings can be conducted every second while tracking the number of outstanding pings at any point in time.
PowerTCP Mail for ActiveX has been updated to version 2.9 and has added extensive support for multi-national character sets. To read about all the changes, click here.
Dart is committed to supporting the PowerTCP Tools ActiveX product line and is in the process of updating all the products. The most recent updates include:
Technical changes for these products can be viewed on their respective product pages and the latest versions can be downloaded here.
Version 1.1 of PowerTCP Zip Compression for .NET has been released with support for AES encryption that is compatible with WinZip 9.0. Supported encryption types include 256-bit, 192-bit, and 128-bit encryption. Along with AES, more options are now available for self-extraction configuration, the speed of compression and decompression has been improved, more error codes added, and a sample for Borland Delphi 8 for .NET has been included.
"Overall, I have been very pleased with these components. They come with a lot of sample code, good documentation that integrates into the MSDN Help system, and they have good support newsgroups on the http://www.powertcp.com site."
You can read the complete review of the PowerTCP .NET product line in the April issue of asp.netPRO Magazine.
Visit the PowerWEB TextBox for ASP.NET product page to read about the most powerful and easy-to-use HTML WYSIWYG text editor on the market today.
Version 2 of PowerWEB TextBox for ASP.NET extends compatibility to Netscape 7.1+ and Mozilla 1.3+ for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Along with enhanced compatibility new features include support for localization. Built-in localization for Spanish, French, and German can be set with a simple property, while more languages can be easily added using XML. Other new capabilities include XHTML support, the ability to insert and configure Flash movies and Windows Media. HTML formatting has been extended with absolute positioning control, enhanced image support, cleaning of Microsoft Word tags, pasting HTML, and zooming.
“By bringing capabilities such as HTML editing and word processing with PowerWEB TextBox for ASP.NET, Dart Communications is helping all levels of ASP.NET developers build great sites.” says Shawn Nandi, product manager for ASP.NET in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corporation.
Dart Communications is proud to announce the release of PowerTCP Zip Compression for .NET. This new addition to Dart’s PowerTCP product line enables not only standard zip file/stream compression and decompression, but also allows for fine-tuned data configuration. The powerful Archive component represents all data as individual items in a collection, regardless of whether their source is compressed or uncompressed, exposing their properties for customization. This technology allows for mixing uncompressed data with previously compressed files and recompressing them into new archives.
Developers using Microsoft ASP.NET will benefit from the extensive stream support in PowerTCP Zip Compression for .NET. All compression and decompression operations include support for stream sources and destinations. This capability allows web developers to seamlessly compress data and return it to a requesting client without writing temporary files and enabling write-access on the server.
"Besides giving your site users a flexible and easy-to-use control for creating HTML content, this control has a huge benefit from the developer perspective: Simplicity. You literally just need to drag and drop it on a Web Form, size it, and bring up the Property Builder to customize any appearance settings you want."
You can read the complete review of PowerWEB TextBox for ASP.NET in the February issue of asp.netPRO Magazine.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is responsible for managing the Mars Exploration Mission for NASA, and a long-time Dart Communications customer, is currently using the PowerTCP Telnet Tool as part of their software development related to a suite of research-based robotic vehicles at their Robotics Lab. These vehicles and their software are developed for the purpose of enabling and enhancing JPL’s robotic capabilities on future space missions. You can learn more about the work conducted by JPL’s Mechanical and Robotic Technologies Group at http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/
Dart Communications, a leading provider of Internet Development Components and Services, announced today the release of PowerTCP Emulation for .NET. This new addition to Dart’s PowerTCP product line enhances Microsoft’s .NET Framework with the ability to emulate VT-52, VT-100, VT-220 and VT-320, plus includes native components that add stream-based Telnet, rexec, rsh, and rlogin capability for client to server communications.
Visit the PowerWEB TextBox for ASP.NET product page to read about the most powerful and easy-to-use HTML WYSIWYG text editor on the market today.Written with C# in 100% managed code, our newest Web control enables Microsoft ASP.NET developers to replace the standard TextArea of their web application with support for HTML content and traditional word processing capabilities without relying on any client-side components or controls.
"PowerTCP Telnet for .NET is an excellent product that deserves a place in any serious developer's toolbox."
You can read the complete review of PowerTCP Telnet for .NET in the August issue of Visual Studio Magazine.
With the addition of SSL encryption and certificate authentication, PowerTCP Secure Mail for .NET enables the already feature-rich SMTP, IMAP, and POP components to establish secure connections to mail servers and provides both server and client authentication from any application built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2003. Support for Implicit and Explicit SSL security assures the widest range of secure mail server compatibility, including Microsoft Exchange, IMail, CommuniGate Pro, UNIX Open Source mail servers, and most other mail servers that support SSL-based security and authentication.
Dart Communications continues its long tradition of partnering with Microsoft to maximize innovative technology development by joining the new Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program. In the past, the partnership with Microsoft has been crucial in creating products such the PowerTCP for .NET product line, enabling the Dart software development team to access critical technology and resources necessary to achieve a high level of integration with Visual Studio. This additional program will extend our relationship with Microsoft and continue to benefit our customers by maximizing the benefits of Visual Studio.
Dart Communications, a leading provider of Internet Development Components and Services, announced today the release of PowerTCP Secure FTP for .NET. Using PowerTCP Secure FTP for .NET, files can be easily transferred using wildcards or streams. For advanced usage, direct access to the data connection is available for unprecedented levels of control. In all cases, data can be secured using SSL encryption with certificate authentication. Full support for most major servers in both secure and un-secure modes, including Globalscape, WS_FTP, and Serv_U, and complete customization of both encryption levels and authentication requirements is available. For clients that require substantial proxy support, all major proxy implementations are supported including SOCKS4/5 in secure mode.
Dart Communications, a leading provider of Internet Development Components and Services, announced today the release of PowerTCP Mail for .NET 2.0 that adds IMAP support to the already included components and classes for POP, SMTP, MIME, and various encoding algorithms.
The second version of PowerTCP Mail for .NET adds an Imap component for comprehensive communications with an IMAP server. Based on the most recent revision to RFC 2060 on October of 2002, the Imap component is designed to enable a local representation of a remote IMAP server in a hierarchical structure, enabling the ability to easily represent the IMAP structure in a TreeView. Plus, the new Imap component includes full Idle support, advanced search capabilities, extensive Event notification, and the ability to access individual message parts even when conducting bulk transfers.
Dart Communications, a leading provider of Internet Development Components and Services, announced today the release of PowerTCP Sockets for .NET. For those building Internet applications, but without the need for SSL encryption as provided in the PowerTCP SSL Sockets for .NET, this version enhances Microsoft’s .NET Framework with native components and classes that add the ability to create multi-threaded servers plus add TCP, UDP, DNS, Ping, and Trace Route capability to .NET applications with the ease and simplicity of placing a component on a form.
Dart Communications, a leading provider of Internet Development Components and Services, announced today the release of PowerTCP Telnet for .NET. This new addition to Dart’s PowerTCP product line enhances Microsoft’s .NET Framework with native components that add stream-based Telnet, rexec, rsh, and rlogin capability.
The PowerTCP Tools ActiveX product line has been upgraded to support use in a multi-threaded environment and COM+ Component Services. ASP developers can now use COM+ to pool PowerTCP controls for better load management.
A new version of the PowerTCP SSL Tool has been released with powerful extended capabilities. See the product overview more information on the PowerTCP SSL Tool and a free trial.
Finally, software developers will be able to implement SSL over FTP through a Firewall using Dart's proprietary FirewallReady functionality (requires PowerTCP products on both sides of the connection). Previously this type of functionality has been unavailable in an ActiveX control.
This version has also been re-engineered to support all major SSL over FTP standards and includes the capability to create custom configurations for compatibility with unique secure FTP implementations! Standard support includes Globalscape, WS_FTP, and SERV_U.
The lower-level components such as SecureTCP and SecureServer have been heavily compatibility tested with common UNIX libraries such as OpenSSL and Certicom Plus.
Additionally, the certificate handling capabilities have been improved with the addition of certificate creation using the CertificateStore plus extended certificate management capabilities such as certificate deletion.
Dart Communications, a provider of Internet Application Development Components and Solutions, is pleased to announce the localization of PowerTCP .NET components by GrapeCity, located in Sendai, Japan. GrapeCity, formally named Bunka Orient Corp (BOC), is a leading provider of software products and customized solutions in East Asia. In 1999, GrapeCity translated a set of Dart’s ActiveX PowerTCP component products: Mail, FTP, Winsock and Web for the Japanese market. GrapeCity has announced that it will now begin the localization of Dart’s new product line; tools developed specifically for the .NET environment, for release in the later part of 2002.
Dart Communications, a leading provider of Internet Development Components and Services, announced today the release of PowerTCP Mail for .NET with native classes that send, receive, compose, edit, encode and decode e-mail messages.
PowerTCP FTP for .NET has recently been updated to provide additional functionality and increased exception handling capability. Visit the PowerTCP FTP for .NET product page for more information and free trial.
NEW Delete() and BeginDelete() methods delete directories, files (using wild-cards), and recursive directory trees. Be careful with this!
Visual Studio .NET has been released and Dart is committed to giving you a choice when it comes to .NET. You can either purchase our native .NET managed code components for the .NET Framework or use our ActiveX controls for both Visual Studio 6 and .NET. All the ActiveX products have been updated to include support for the .NET Framework through interoperability and now ship with a variety of VB.NET samples.
Visit the PowerTCP FTP for .NET product page to read about all the great new features for FTP communications
Written with C# in 100% managed code, our newest component is designed to take advantage of all that .NET has to offer.
“Microsoft is pleased to be working with Dart Communications as it introduces its suite of PowerTCP Internet communications components for the Microsoft .NET Framework,” said Marie Huwe, director of Developer Tools at Microsoft Corp. “Together, the PowerTCP components and the Microsoft .NET Framework will provide developers with a comprehensive solution for delivering communications functionality in Internet applications.”