Network Component

Easy to use development component for Windows featuring DNS, FTP(s), HTTP(s), ICMP, SCP, SFTP, VMware and more. Samples included for Visual Studio .NET, C++, VBScript, Powershell and more.

Features

With ActiveXperts Network Component, you can use the following objects:

• Dns – Query servers running a domain name service (DNS). More »
• Ftp(s) – Read web pages, analyze content. Supports HTTP-Post, proxies, SSL and more. More »
• Http(s) – Read web pages, analyze content. Supports HTTP-Post, proxies, SSL and more. More »
• Icmp – See if you can reach another computer and determine how long it takes. More »
• IPtoCountry – Translates IP addresses to countries. Use it for web log analysis, marketing purposes, etc. More »
• Ntp – Query NTP time servers and retrieve the actual date and time. More »
• Radius – Networking protocol to provide centralized authentication and authorization management. More »
• Rsh – Run commands or scripts on a remote UNIX or LINUX computer through RSH. More »
• Scp – Securely transfer files between two computers using the SSH (Secure SHell) protocol. More »
• Sftp – Allows secure network file transfer over an insecure network, such as the Internet. More »
• Snmp – Use SNMP operations Get, GetNext, Set and Trap; supports SNMP v1 and SNMP v2c. More »
• Snmp Trap – Send/receive SNMP traps to/from SNMP agents (v1, v2c) in the network. More »
• Snmp MIB – Load a MIB database into memory and iterate over all objects and view all properties. More »
• Ssh – Run commands or scripts on LINUX computer in a secure way using SSH. More »
• Tcp – Write your own TCP-based client/server applications or Telnet application. More »
• Tftp – Get/put files from/to a remote TFTP host. More »
• TraceRoute – Tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. More »
• Udp – Create your UDP-based client/server applications; create UDP-based broadcast application. More »
• VERDE – Get performance data from a NIMBOXX Verde VDI host and its gold images. More »
• VMware – Get performance data from a VMware host and its virtual machines. More »
• Wake-On-LAN – Wake up (power-up) machines on your LAN, based on their MAC address. More »
• Xen -Get performance data from a Citrix Xen host and its virtual machines. More »

Samples

ActiveXperts Network Component includes samples for many development tools, including:

Visual Basic .NET – Visual C# .NET – ASP .NET VB – ASP .NET CSharp – Visual C++ – Visual Basic 6 – ASP 2.x – PHP – HTML – VBScript – VBA – PowerShell – Delphi – ColdFusion

This code snippet illustrates how to use ActiveXperts Network Component. It locates the country based on a Host/IP. For full samples, go to ftp.activexperts-lab.com.

Set objIPC  = CreateObject( "AxNetwork.IPtoCountry" )   
objIPC.Host = "www.activexperts.com"                       
objIPC.Query()                                            
WScript.Echo "Query, result: " & objIPC.LastError         
If objIPC.LastError = 0 Then
  WScript.Echo "Host " & strHost & " is located in " & objIPC.CountryName
End If

Supported Operating Systems

ActiveXperts Network Component runs on all major Windows platforms. The component is just one DLL: AxNetwork64.dll. For 32-bit platforms, AxNetwork32.dll is also included.

The component runs on the following Windows operating systems:

• Server platforms: Windows 2022, Windows 2019, Windows 2016, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 2012, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2008, Windows 2003
• Desktop platforms: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Distribution

The core of ActiveXperts Network Component is a ActiveX/COM DLL component is available as a 64-bit DLL and a 32-bit DLL.

• AxNetwork64.dll – the ActiveX/COM component for 64-bit Windows platforms
• AxNetwork32.dll – the ActiveX/COM component for 32-bit Windows platforms

Distribution is easy: copy the DLL(s) to the target platform and register the self-registering DLL using the REGSVR32.EXE Windows command. Click here for more information.