'ActiveXperts Network Component' is ActiveXperts' network communication toolkit (formerly known as 'ActiveSocket Network Communication Toolkit'). It allows you to seamlessly integrate network functionality in your applications or scripts.

The product runs on Windows 2012 R2/2012/2008 R2/2008/2003/8/7/Vista/XP platforms and has native support for both 32bit and 64bit architecture. It can be used with various development tools, including Visual Basic .NET, Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C++, ASP .NET, ASP, PHP, VBScript, Delphi and JavaScript.

• Due to the high demand for VC++ samples, ActiveXperts Network Component 4.5 includes a new set of VC++ samples.
  Console Applications best demonstrate how to use ActiveXperts Network Component in VC++, because there very limited GUI code included. Therefore, many new VC++ Console Application projects are included.
• Minor fixes or improvements to various sample projects;
• New samples projects for various development platforms included;
• IPv6 optimizations for all ActiveXperts Network Component objects.

• ActiveXperts Network Component 4.4. has changed its naming convention for all its objects. The name for the namespace has changed from 'ASocketLib' into 'AxNetwork'. The Program ID has changed from 'ActiveXperts' into 'AxNetwork'. The name for the Program Elements remain the same.
  For instance, to create an Tcp object in C#, call 'new AxNetwork.Tcp()'. In ActiveSocket, it was 'new ASocketLib.Tcp()';
  To create the same object in VBScript, call 'CreateObject( "AxNetwork.Tcp" )'. In ActiveSocket, you had to call 'CreateObject( "ActiveXperts.Tcp" )'.
• ActiveXperts Network Component 4.4 has full support for IPv6.
• ActiveXperts Network Component 4.4 has a new object called 'VMware' to query VMware hosts. It allows you to query counters on the host, list virtual machines on a host, and query counters for virtual machines.
• ActiveXperts Network Component 4.4 has a new object called 'Xen' to query Citrix Xen hosts. It allows you to query counters on the host, list virtual machines on a host, and query counters for virtual machines.
• ActiveXperts Network Component 4.4 supports SNMP v3 (secure SNMP, based on SSL).
• There are new samples included; existing samples are improved.

• Uninstall the ActiveXperts Network Component 4.4 product. Use the 'Add/Remove Programs' applet in the Control Panel to start the Uninstall procedure;
• Download the ActiveXperts Network Component 4.5 Installation file from the ActiveXperts Software download site and start the ActiveXperts Network Component 4.5 Installation. The InstallShield wizard will guide you through the steps of the installation.

• Uninstall the ActiveSocket product. Use the 'Add/Remove Programs' applet in the Control Panel to start the Uninstall procedure;
• Download the ActiveXperts Network Component 4.5 Installation file from the ActiveXperts Software download site and start the ActiveXperts Network Component 4.5 Installation. The InstallShield wizard will guide you through the steps of the installation.
• Change the namespaces and Program ID's as described above.