http://blog.catalyst.com Applications, Components and Libraries For Software Developers Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:47:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing on February 4th and is available to volume licensees and MSDN subscribers. The operating system will be officially released on February 27th as part of a larger product launch that also includes Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Additional information about ... http://blog.catalyst.com/archives/24 For developers who are using still Visual Basic 6.0, the product is reaching the end of it's extended support on April 8th, 2008 as it transitions into the non-supported phase of its lifecycle. This includes the Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions of Visual Basic 6.0, as well as those versions ... http://blog.catalyst.com/archives/23 Technical support for version 4.5 of all SocketTools Editions, all SocketWrench Editions, the File Transfer and Internet Mail products officially ended on December 31, 2007. It is recommended that those developers who are currently using version 4.5 download the last available build. Links to download the product files can be ... http://blog.catalyst.com/archives/25 SocketTools 5.0 Service Pack 3 has been released and offers developers new features, improved performance and full compatibility with Visual Studio 2008 and the Windows Vista operating system. This service pack update is a complete release of the product with the latest improvements to all of the SocketTools components. If ... http://blog.catalyst.com/archives/22 If you are working with the .NET Framework and need to incorporate file transfer or e-mail functionality in your software, the new File Transfer .NET and Internet Mail .NET components can enable you to add those features quickly and easily, with a minimum of coding and virtually no learning curve. ... http://blog.catalyst.com/archives/21 For those developers who are using the SocketTools .NET Edition or SocketTools Secure .NET Edition and have downloaded Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, we've released an updated version of the assemblies built using Visual Studio 2008 that target the 3.5 Framework. This is a free update that is available to all developers who are currently using SocketTools 5.0: Download Visual Studio 2008 Update It ... http://blog.catalyst.com/archives/20 We've released an updated version of the SocketWrench Tutorial we originally made for the ActiveX control and Visual Basic. This new version uses the SocketWrench .NET component with Visual Studio 2005, and we believe that it is easier to read and understand, focusing on the developer who is new to ... http://blog.catalyst.com/archives/19 One of the more frequent questions that we get from customers is whether an update is available for their software, or when a new version has been released. We have a number of RSS newsfeeds that can easily provide you with exactly that kind of information. You can subscribe to ... http://blog.catalyst.com/archives/18 One typical requirement for many applications today is the ability to transfer files between the local system and a remote server, and the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Hyptertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) are the two most commonly used Internet protocols for this purpose. SocketTools has components that support both of ... http://blog.catalyst.com/archives/17 PowerShell is Microsoft's new command line shell and scripting development environment for the Windows platforms. It primarily serves as both a replacement for the classic command line (cmd.exe) and as an administrative tool that integrates much of the functionality that was previously found in other tools like Windows Scripting Host ... http://blog.catalyst.com/archives/16