A: Absolutely. We ship complete finished apps (not just simple technology demonstrations) in both CSharp and Visual Basic .NET as both Windows Applications and Web Applications.
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A: Yes, just put code within the Progress Event to update status information.
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A: Yes. This product is architected on the basis of streams and almost anything can be represented as a stream.
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A: We provide extensive support to help you design, develop, and debug quicker and easier than ever before. For example, we provide full Help 2.0 documentation (including tutorials) which integrates directly into Visual Studio .NET. Also, we provide integrated Editor Forms which can be used for protocol testing.
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A: Microsoft Windows XP SP2 is a large update to the Windows XP operating system. The focus of this update is to tighten system security. One of those features is the built-in firewall. By default, Microsoft will turn on the firewall and block all applications from communicating over the Internet. As most PowerTCP products are designed for building Internet applications, those applications may be blocked from accessing the network. The solution to this problem, as it is for any application that needs to access the network, is to grant permission using Microsoft’s configuration utility. Instructions on using the Microsoft firewall are at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/internet/sp2_wfintro.mspx, and more information about manual network security configuration is available by reading Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 842242 . Also, Microsoft will disallow using ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer by default. It your web application uses PowerTCP ActiveX controls in IE, your users will have to manually adjust their security settings to allow ActiveX usage. If you find any other problems with SP2 and PowerTCP products, please contact Dart support at support@dart.com.
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A: Delphi caches information about the component when you insert it. Close Delphi and delete any Dart.PowerTCP.xxx.* files that exist, then reopen and rebuild the project.
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A:

Since the component operation is running on it's own thread, it's important to keep the owner thread around long enough for the worker thread to terminate. Here is what we recommend:

1) On the main form, declare two variables:

Dim Working As Boolean = False
Dim Killing As Boolean = False

2) In the Form_Closing, put the following code:

If Working Then
    If (MessageBox.Show(Me, "Do you wish to abort the operation?", APP_NAME, 
    MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question) = DialogResult.Yes) Then
        Killing = True
        Object.Abort()  'This would be the instance of the component -ex: Archive1.Abort()
    End If
    e.Cancel = True
End If

3) Prior to calling the component operation, set Working to True

4) After the component operation is complete add the following code:

Working = false
If Killing then Me.Close()

 

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A: Yes. Your trial download is identical to the purchased product. The only difference is the trial download will only work for 30 days.
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A:

Websites create an App_Licenses.dll for component licensing which must be distributed with the application.  Due to an apparent VS.NET 2008 bug, this dll is faulty when created during compilation on a 64 bit Operating System.  To work-around the problem, the App_Licenses dll in the 2008 Website can be replaced. 

Options include:
a) Compile a 2005 WebSite on the same (licensed) machine using the same controls/components
b) Compile a 2005 or 2008 WebSite on a 32 bit OS machine, provided this machine is also licensed (Dart Developer licenses allow installation on up to two machines)

Replace the faulty App_Licenses.dll with the resulting dll from one of the options above, and the Website should build and deploy without issue.  Do not delete the new dll, or VS.NET will again create a new faulty one in its place.

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