Welcome to the hiNRGware website.

This is the place where to find the latest information about our product MagicTCP! and to download the current version of MagicTCP!.

We would like to thank you all for the many positive feedback we received during the last weeks. We are working as hard as we can to make MagicTCP! even better and to provide detailed documentation.

Please note: This site is currently under construction. A new website will be available soon.

What is MagicTCP! ?

MagicTCP! is a free ActiveX-control, which gives you instant powerful access to multiple concurrent TCP/IP connections from Microsoft Visual Basic or other development tools supporting ActiveX-controls. Rapid development of TCP/IP applications has never been as simple before. MagicTCP! is designed to provide a very easy programming interface, hiding all the winsock complexity, while maintaining full control over every detail of the network connections.

Simplicity does not mean feature less! MagicTCP! offers a plenty of features (some of them like data encryption) are unique to MagicTCP!, which give you all the functionality you need, when it comes to socket connections:

Up to 1001 concurrent TCP/IP connections (client and server) by using just one MagicTCP!-control !!
Fast ATL-based implementation (does not require MFC-DLL's)
Support for outgoing connections (Connect)
Support for incoming connections (Listen)
Optional Encryption of transfered data
Detailed control over socket options (eg. reuseaddr, keepalive, linger, tcpnodelay, ...)
Data transfered can be binary or textstrings
Receive data directly into files
Transmit data directly from files
Efficient forwarding of data from one socket to another for rapid TCP/IP-tunnel development
Access lists containing wildcard IP adresses to restrict accepted incoming connections
Cache for DNS name resolution to speed up connect times
Support for UDP sockets
Optional detailed logging of socket activity
Load socket configurations from an inifile

Who is hiNRGware?

We from hiNRGware believe in the power of the internet and want to give every developer easy, yet powerful, access to internet resources. MagicTCP! is our first product to let this vision become realtity.

hiNRGware was founded in 1999 by Manfred M. and friends.

Where can I download MagicTCP! ?

The current version of MagicTCP! is 2.2. To download MagicTCP! click here.

Currently the usage of MagicTCP! is free for non-commercial projects. However if you want to use MagicTCP! in a commercial way, please contact MacipTCP! for details.

If you are using MagicTCP! in one of your projects, please send us a short mail. We would like to here from you!

Documentation

Full documentation will be available as HTML-Pages (work is in progess!). It will contain a reference and a howto section. However, there won't be any .HLP-file.

At the moment only a short reference and example VB6 projects are available:

SimpleWeb - a very simple web server.
SimpleProxy - a very simple HTTP-proxy. This proxy may speed up your internet accesses because it caches hostname translations, if you remove the user interface.
UdpChat - a very simple chat client, based on the UDP protocol. It shows some basic techniques on how to implement network communication between multiple clients in a LAN (multi player games).

What's new in MagicTCP! ?

Since MagicTCP! version 1.0 a lot of outstanding features, simplifying TCP/IP-socket programming even more, have been added:

New in version 2.2 (21-Jul-1999):

Encryption / decryption of transfered / received data to implement secure socket connections over the internet (new properties EncryptionKey and DecryptionKey)
Transmit or receive entire files (new methods SendFile() and ReadFile(), new events OnFileWritten() and OnFileRead() )
Simplified sending of data (new methods WriteStringEx() andWriteEx() ). Any unsent data is internally stored and automatically sent, when a socket becomes ready again.
New method Forward() to simplify data forwarding even more.
Support for UDP-broadcasting (new property Broadcast).
New property DontRoute
Bugfix: ReadTimeout and WriteTimeout are now working properly.

New in version 2.1 (12-Jul-1999):

Support for UDP sockets (new property Type: 1 = TCP, 2 = UDP) (hey, why do we still call this control MagicTCP! ?)
Detailed logging of socket activity (new properties LogFile, LogEnable, LogSocket, LogTimestamp, LogHexdump)

New in version 2.0:

Implementation based on Microsoft Active Template Library 3.0 (ATL). This garantees significant performance gains and and no more dependecies on MFC-DLL's.
Cache for DNS hostname resolutions which speeds up Connect() and GetHostByName()
VB-Example "SimpleProxy" is now online
New Method "ErrorText" to translate a numeric winsock error code into a text representation
Bugfxes: Property is AccessList now working correctly; state variable zzBuffer can handle any binary string; WinsockDescription now always available
Some properties renamed: WinsockError -> LastError, WinsockErrorText -> LastErrorText

New in version 1.2:

Property AccessList to specify a list of IP adresses (containing wildcard character '*'), which are allowed to connect to the current socket
Method LoadProfile for loading a set of properties from an inifile into the current socket
Property PartnerSocket to specify a socket which is associated with the current socket. If the current socket is closed or deleted, the partner socket will also be automatically closed or deleted.

New in version 1.1:

Method ReadLine() for reading a TCP/IP-stream line by line
Property EOL specifing the "end of line"-string for successive ReadLine() invocations
Methods GetHostByName() and GetHostByNameEx() for translating a host name into an IP address (a list of IP adresses)
Methods GetHostByAddr() and GetHostByAddrEx() to detect the hostname(s) for a given IP address
Methods ReadString() and WriteString() are now fully supporting string arguments containing binary nulls
Property AcceptedHosts to specify an optional list of IP addresses (including wildcards) from which incoming connection requests are accepted (all others are rejected)
Properties ReadTimeout and WriteTimeout specifing an idle timeout on a socket.
Events OnReadTimeout() and OnWriteTimeout() which are fired, if a read or a write idle timeout occurs on a socket
Property BytesToRead() specifing the number of unread bytes on the current socket
Property ForwardSocket() determines the number of the socket, where all the data from the current socket should automatically be routed to.
Method Bind() to make explicit socket bindings.
Method WinsockErrorText() for translating a numeric winsock error into a corresponding text representation.
Properties zzState, zzType and zzBuffer for storing arbitary state information with any socket
Properties GetProfileString(), GetProfileInt(), SetProfileString() and SetProfileInt() for accessing inifiles.
Fixed some minor bugs.

What's next?

hiNRGware has plans for additional ActiveX controls and programs related to the internet:

Improved documentation and samples for MagicTCP!
a simple web server control
gateway software for tunneling TCP streams over HTTP requests

How to contact us

Please send any comments or questions to the following email address:

MagicTCP@hotmail.com

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Last updated on 13-Aug-1999

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