.NET Assembly

Important Note!

The .NET assembly is still provided for your use, however the team is working on a full Indy C# port that in the future will replace this distribution.

Demos

Most Indy demos are currently in Delphi (And a few in C++). A few demos have been uploaded to the Atozed Indy Portal in C#, Delphi, and Visual Basic. If you are interested in contributing demos please see the .NET Demo Team page.

Documentation

Indy 10 documentation is available in a variety of formats, and can be downloaded from the Documentation page.  Documentation can also be accessed online in HTML format.

The existing documentation is geared towards Delphi and examples are written in Delphi. We are working on updating the documentation to include C# and Visual Basic examples. Until that time please use the Delphi examples as they easily translate into C# and Visual Basic. You can also ask questions in the .dotnet and .visualstudio groups on the Indy Newsserver.

In addition, please check out these articles of special interest to .NET users:

• Why Indy? - A common question from .net users is: "Why should I use Indy when .NET has native socket support?". This is a very reasonable question, with simple but not immediately obvious answers.
• Indy for Visual Studio.Net Developers - This article will cover some of the Indy basics, but is specifically geared towards Visual Studio.NET developers. It provides source code in C#, Visual Basic, and Delphi. It also answers some common questions from Visual Studio.NET users.
• Indy in Depth - The Indy Book by the original Indy author. It cannot get more authoritative than that! Best of all, its an e-book and you do not have to worry about shipping as you can download it.
• Table of current VCL to .NET class names - This will provide you with a translation for both using documentation, or for users who have used Indy before.

User Contributed Articles

• FTP Windows Forms Client, using Managed Assembly by Fakher Halim
• How to send a simple text email message by Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu

Visual Studio.NET Users

To use Indy in your project, select "Add Reference" from the Project menu. When the Add Reference dialog appears, click the Browse button and browse to Indy.Sockets.dll. Now click Open to close the dialog window, and OK to close the Add Reference window.

Your project is all ready to use Indy. Simply add a using Indy.Sockets (C#) or Imports Indy.Sockets (VB) to the unit that you wish to use Indy in.

Build Note

The .NET assembly does not contain all Indy features and protocols yet. We are adding more and more of them each week. Currently it contains about 95% of the functionality including TCP clients and servers, UDP, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 (client), and more.

Requirements

• 1.1 .NET Framework
• Visual Studio.NET 2003, or any other .NET Development environment. Visual Studio.NET 2002 cannot be used because it does not support the 1.1 framework.

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