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The suite of the Clever Internet components presents the most efficient and convenient way of accessing the Internet resources from your applications.
Using the Clever Internet Suite you can implement many useful Internet-related features:
Downloading, uploading and submitting of the Internet-resources. Sending and receiving MIME messages. HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP and NNTP Client / Server solutions and many more.
- MS Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 support.
- MS Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 support.
- Windows CE and .NET Compact Framework 3.5 support - Beta, see notes below this document.
- Int64 support was implemented in all client and server components.
- SOCKS firewall support was added.
- Certificate management was improved - creating certificates, certifcate requests, public/private keys.
- Server components improvements - local binding, server protection, session timeout.
- SSL improvements - the ability to require client certificate was added, multiple client certificates support was implemented.
- TCP server - the ability to use non-ascii commands was added.
- The Keep-alive feature for all TCP clients.
- The session timeout feature is implemented in TCP server components.
 Component |
 Description |
 Async Client |
An asynchronous TCP client component. |
| Bounce Checker |
Scans any POP3 mailbox for bounced messages. |
| Custom Client |
Allows you to implement a custom TCP/UDP client, send commands, receive responses in both SSL-encrypted and non-encrypted modes. |
| Custom Server |
A special component for implementing custom TCP/UDP server functionality. This component can be used together with Custom TCP/UDP Client component. |
| DNS Server |
Implements a server for the DNS (Domain Name Server) protocol. |
| Email Validator |
Verifies if an email address is valid, properly formatted and really exists. |
| EPP Client/Server |
Implements the Extensible Provisioning protocol (EPP) and can be used for communicating between domain name registries and domain name registrars. |
| IMAP Server |
Represents the IMAP4 server component which allows receiving emails, as well as managing emails and mail folders on the server. |
| NNTP Server |
Represents the NNTP server which allows receiving news articles, as well as posting news to the newsgroups. |
| RSS Feeds |
Is used for creating, retrieving, and editing RSS feeds. |
| Server Guard |
brute-force attack blocking, connection flood detecting and many more. |
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Please see the Clever Internet .NET Suite History page to get full feature and bug listings.
This is a first edition of the Clever Internet .NET suite with Windows CE support. Currently not all functionality is available in Compact Framework edition. We are planning to implement it in the nearest future. Please feel free to notify us about any problems and ask us any questions you will have. A list of restrictions can be seen below:
- CertificateStore component is not available in Compact Framework edition.
- SmimeMessage component is not available.
- Connecting via SSL / TLS channel is not available.
- NTLM authentication temporarily disabled in both client and server components.
- The installer automatically registers Clever Internet .NET Suite Compact Framework assemblies in GAC, but it does not install components to Visual Studio Toolbox.
- Clever Internet .NET Suite Demos are not yet converted to Windows CE. It is provided for studying purposes.
The following new features will be implemented:
- Server components for HTTP protocol.
- FTP SSH support.
- Existing components improvements.
- Support for ICMP, LDAP, ACAP and other protocols.
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