In The Hand Ltd today released Networking In The Hand, a developer library for the
.NET Compact Framework 2.0 and 3.5 Beta. This library adds additional networking functionality
not found in in the Compact Framework while matching the object model used in the
full .NET framework to make it easy to share your code between platforms. Functionality
includes:-
-
InTheHand.Net.WebClient - Provides helper methods for working
with information upload and download over HTTP and FTP transports, and any other WebRequest
based implementations.
-
InTheHand.Net.FtpWebRequest - Provides a complete desktop compatible
implementation of the WebRequest pattern for FTP.
-
InTheHand.Net.WebRequestMethods - Provides a reference of all
the HTTP and FTP methods (GET/POST etc)
-
InTheHand.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping - Perform a Ping and determine
network availability and performance.
-
InTheHand.Net.NetworkInformation.IPGlobalProperties - Retrieve
a wide range of networking statistics to measure traffic and help identify faults.
The library is licensed on a per-developer basis with no additional royalties required
to distribute the runtime with your applications. Full details on the product can
be found on the product details page - http://inthehand.com/content/Networking.aspx.
A fully functionality Evaluation version is available to download - http://inthehand.com/files/folders/evals/entry4014.aspx.
Read the complete post at http://peterfoot.net/NewNetworkingComponent.aspx