Wake-on-LAN Remote Wake-Up software library for Visual Basic .NET

ActiveSocket is a Network Communication component for Windows Developers. It runs on any 32 bit and 64 bit Windows Platform, incl. Windows 7, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
It features many IP protocols, incl.: SSH (Secure Shell), RSH (Remote Shell), HTTP(s), FTP, ICMP Ping, NTP, SNMP v1/v2c (Get,GetNext,Set), SNMP MIB translation, SNMP Trap Sender, SNMP Trap Receiver, Telnet, DNS, TCP, UDP, IP-to-Country, Wake-On-LAN and more. Samples are included many popular development platforms, incl. Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET, ASP .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C/C++, ASP, Java, Javascript, PHP, Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, ColdFusion.

Wake-on-LAN (also called WOL, or WoL) is an Ethernet networking standard based on message broadcast, that allows a workstation or server to be turned on remotely by a 'magic packet' network message.

To do so, Wake on LAN must be supported by the motherboard and needs to be enabled (on most motherboards, it is disabled by default). With Wake-on-LAN, a network card listens for a special packet called "Magic Packet." This Magic Packet is broadcasted on a LAN. When a computer with Wake-on-LAN enabled receives the packet, the network card instructs the computer to power on and boots the machine.

ActiveSocket can be well integrated into Visual Basic .NET environments. This document describes how ActiveSocket can be integrated into Visual Basic .NET projects.

Step 1: Download and install the ActiveSocket Toolkit

Download the the ActiveSocket Toolkit from the ActiveXperts Download Site and start the installation. The installation guides you through the installation process.

Step 2: Create a new Visual Basic .NET Project

Launch Microsoft Visual Studio (for instance 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2005') from the Start menu. Choose 'New' from the 'File' menu and click on 'Project'. In the 'New Project' dialog, select a Visual Studio template (for instance: 'Console Application'). Select a name for the application (for instance: 'DemoApp') and a name for the solution (for instance: 'DemoSolution'). Also, select the directory where you want to store the project (for instance: 'C:\MyProjects):

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Step 3: Refer to the ActiveSocket Library and create the objects

Now that a new project has been created, you must add a reference to the ActiveSocket Toolkit in the project to be able to use the the ActiveSocket object. To do so, choose 'Add Reference...' from the 'Project' menu. In the 'Add Reference' dialog that pops up, select the 'COM' tab and select the 'ActiveSocket 3.1 Type Library' as shown in the following picture:

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Click 'OK' to close the 'Add Reference' dialog.

On top of your code, type the following line to use the ActiveSocket namespace:

   Imports ASOCKETLib

In your Main function, declare and create the following object:

   Public m_objWOL As WOL

   m_objWOL = New WOL()

Full Sample Code

There are WOL samples included with the product. You can also find them on the ActiveXperts FTP site: ftp.activexperts-labs.com/samples/asocket