User's Guide

Introduction

.Nick's is currently made of two libraries: DotNX.Core, which contains general purpose classes, and DotNX.Ftp, which implements an FTP client. Both libraries are being developed under .NET 2.0, but they should also work under 3.x. I made no attempt to be compatible with .NET 1.x and I haven't tried them on either MONO or the compact framework.

The code should be reasonably bug free, as it is currently part of a couple of programs that run almost continuously 24 hours a day in a production setting. However there are parts that I'm not satisfied with, test coverage is decidedly lacking, especially for DotNX.Core, the documentation should be expanded and I haven't made up my mind yet on the shape that releases should take; this is why I consider .Nick's to be in alpha state.

DotNX.Core

This library is a holding place for a set of small class collections, each of which is too small in itself to form a standalone library. The areas currently addressed are:

DotNX.Ftp

DotNX.Ftp derives from Jean-Jacques Boudart's .NET FTP Client. I cleaned it a little bit and added a regression test suite. I also split its interface in two: the Client class provides a higher level view, which is analogous to the command set of typical interactive FTP clients; the Connection class provides almost direct access to the commands described in the protocol's RFC specifications.