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Get started with SocketPro
        SocketPro is great! It offers many features that others can't provide. However, without tasting it you will never know what SocketPro really is. This is a step by step guide on how to set up both client and server applications for your testing.

Tutorials for SocketPro 
        A set of tutorials that help you quickly get used to programming with batching, asynchrony and parallel computations using SocketPro.

List of Video Tutorials
        A list of videos that assists you to quickly get used to programming style with requests batch, asynchrony and parallel computations using SocketPro.

A performance comparison between SocketPro and dotNet remoting as well as WCF
        SocketPro is written from batching, asynchrony and parallel computation with online compressing. Socket runs significantly faster than WCF, dotNet remoting, DCOM, Corba, Java RMI and XML/SOAP Web service. This article shows you a performance comparison between SocketPro and dotNet remoting/WCF with samples and source code.

High performance of remoting ADO.NET objects cross desktop and smart devices
        Remoting ADO.NET objects cross desktop and smart devices becomes much easier and faster in SocketPro than .NET remoting and WCF. Our SocketPro has a unique approach for remoting these key .NET objects in batching, asynchrony and parallel fashion.

Fast and securely access any database anywhere using all forms of networks
        Do you want to securely share your databases in real-time among a team of employees anywhere using all forms of network access such as dial-up, DSL, cable and wireless modem as well as local area network (LAN)? SocketPro comes with a free remote database service created from batching, asynchrony, parallel and online compressing computation capabilities with client/server architecture. It delivers unbeatable performance. Although it has so many wonderful features, it is simple and easy for your development. We believe that SocketPro can definitely assist you to use any one of your comfortable languages for creating such an application in just a few days.
        The service makes it possible to fast and securely share remote desktop database files such as Access, FoxPro, Excel, dBase, Paradox, and others anywhere. You will no longer have to ftp files back and forth between machines, which is particularly painful when large files are involved. You will immediately know when a change is made to the database by someone else.  No longer would you have to waste time uploading and downloading files every time a change is made to ensure everyone has the latest information.

Dynamic load balancing across many real data base servers
        Load balancing through SocketPro is truly easy. See the sample project. It can reduce response time from your server to your clients through a central SocketPro dynamic load balancing across many replicate real database servers without any failure.

Establish your own online notification system to distribute any messages anywhere
        SocketPro has a built-in service named as chat service. You can use it to send a message to a specific client privately, or one or more groups of clients publicly whenever an interesting event happens. The article is focused on the chat service and illustrates its various uses.

Push message to any clients directly from your backend databases
       Starting from SocketPro version 5.2.0.2, you can directly push messages from your backend databases in real-time fashion. It is superiorly fast but simple to use with SQL languages. This short article is a development guide. At this time, SocketPro supports pushing messages from MS SQL server, Oracle, DB2 and MySQL. We may add such a wonderful feature to other database management systems.

Access SocketPro server from any platforms and applications by use of HTTP protocol
        Starting from version 5, SocketPro fully supports HTTP protocol as a built-in service for integration of SocketPro with other applications or platforms. Because SocketPro is written with 100% non-blocking TCP communication, it is especially great for exchanging large size of requests like downloading or uploading files by chunked streaming. It is written with supporting key headers like multipart, chunked, and x-dom-event-stream.

SocketPro HTTP server push
        Many popular communication frameworks do not support HTTP callback, but SocketPro does well support HTTP callback. Also, these frameworks don't have HTTP server push feature implemented, but SocketPro does have HTTP server push feature well completed. Additionally, SocketPro HTTP server push is well integrated with its binary built-in chat service. You can exchange messages among many different environments by use of push. For example, you can directly send a message from a smart device, a window desktop or server application to many different types of web browsers in real-time fashion, and vice versa.

Real-time push data onto MS Silverlight clients
        It is tough to push data from HTTP server onto MS Silverlight clients through socket and WCF PollingDuplex channel. The former is difficult to use; and the later one is not scalable even MS itself does not recommend it for a commercial application. Our SocketPro now comes a very tiny but powerful library supporting both HTTP server pushes and HTTP requests. It is superbly simple, but has much better scalability and very low latency.

Cancel long-lasting computation with progress reporting without losing session data
        All of requests are cancelable in SocketPro. A client is able to cancel one processing or more queued requests at server side by sending a base request Cancel or simply closing a socket connection at client side. At server side, you can also report computation progress by pushing a message from server to client during processing. This sample is designed to demonstrate this feature among many unique features in SocketPro.

Create high performance of asynchronous pages in asp.net with SocketPro
        Starting from .NET version 2, asp.net supports asynchronous pages out-of-box. Our SocketPro well supports ASP.NET asynchronous pages. This sample shows you how to create asynchronous pages with batching and parallel computation by heavy reuse of several pools of pre-connected sockets. The implementation is unique, elegant and simple. You can rely this approach to significantly increase your web application performance and scalability.

Cross-browser message and remote JavaScript callback
        SocketPro is successfully integrated with MS IE and Mozilla browsers. Now, you can use SocketPro to send or broadcast a message from one browser to others in real-time fashion. In addition, you can use SocketPro to implement remote JavaScript callback from C++, C#, VB.NET and others. Further, SocketPro is able to upgrade your web application to new level.

HTTP Dynamic Loading Balance by Software
        Loading balance is well used by many web applications to provide a single Internet service from multiple real servers. Starting from version 5.1.0.1, SocketPro is able to provide dynamic loading balance from software.

Network multiple computers/processors for parallel computation
        Now, all of major chips make CPUs with multi-core architecture, which forces developers to write software with strong concurrency or parallelism in mind. This short article demonstrates how to partition a large but simple scientific problem into all of networked computers and processors for reduction of wall-clock time with parallel computation.

Develop a secure Internet application with SocketPro
        SocketPro is designed with security in mind. Keeping a few points in mind, you can develop a high secure distributed application with two lines of code at server side and one line code at client side.

Serialize and de-serialize various data
        SocketPro has provided a utility class CUQueue for great data interoperability between C++ and dotNet development languages. You can pack and unpack various types of data effortless with help of this utility.

Brief introduction of free SSL/TLS enabled non-blocking socket library
        SocketPro can be free to you. This short article gives you a brief introduction about this powerful library with a set of samples for C++, eVC++, C# and VB.NET.

Known problems with SocketPro
       At this time, SocketPro has gradually become matured with MS Window desktop and device systems. However, it does not mean that SocketPro doesn't have any bugs internally. We'll definitely keep on working at these bugs. We are still improving it with adding more services into SocketPro package. We are looking forward to your feedback and questions. If you find a problem, please report it and we'll fix it as early as possible.

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