ViewPoint Overview

Using ViewPoint is simple. Once you have an instance of the component setup, simply call the ConnectionRefresh method to refresh connection information (for any of the properties starting with 'Connection'), and then any of the methods or properties to get IP address, port, or other connection or statistic information.

The following is a brief list outlining some of the features that ViewPoint offers:

• Access to network information via an ActiveX/COM component (can be used by any environment that can use an ActiveX/COM component)
• Supports querying of over 60 different stats and counters from TCP, UDP, ICMP, and IP protocols
• Provides the ability to query information about current TCP and UDP connections, including local hosts, remote hosts, local ports, remote ports, and connection status to facilitate connection monitoring applications
• Supports querying of network card information such as MAC address, ethernet card speed, MTU, card description, and more
• Supports querying underlying information about net to media connections, such as IP address
• Supports querying of route table information, including route destination, interface index, next IP hop, and more
• Supports querying of network address information for all local IP addresss, such as subnet, broadcast address, and more (supports multi-homed machines)
• Lightweight component built with MSVC++ 6 and ATL 3.0 is under 200K, and requires no other files to be redistributed