Tamir Gal

This is a song I recorded couple months ago. It's actually the first song I recorded all by myself, and I beleive the result is not too bad :)

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Chris has posted a new SharpPcap release. It contains some API changes and bunch of important bug fixes. Make sure to check it out on the sourceforge project page:

• Release notes and changelog
• Download location

So, I was looking for an easy way to show my online photos. I wanted a “slideshow” like app that can dynamically load pictures from a text or xml file so I wouldn’t need to work too hard every time I have some new pics to upload.

Google immediately showed me SlideShowPro, which is an impressive piece of Flash based software for managing online galleries. However I was no keen to use commercial product for this simple task.

The second result I found was Vertigo’s Slide.Show, a Silverlight based application. This seemed to be a very cool open source project, supporting many features. However, I was not so thrilled to go with a Silverlight application, as it’s not yet as popular as Flash, and I didn’t want to ask my site’s visitors to install a third party application just for the sake of viewing my online photos. And besides, I needed a solution that would be as portable across browsers / OS’s as possible.

However, Vertigo’s Slide.Show app inspired me to try and write my own Flash based clone of it.

And so, inspired by Slide.Show the result is FlexiShow , my first Flex application written in Actionscript 3.

It’s still not finished yet, there's more to be done (need to make it more configurable, and do some memory and pefromance tweaks), but here’s a preview of how it looks like (sourc code can be viewed and downloaded from here): 

One question I get often about SharpSSH is whether its SFTP implementation support binary vs. ASCII transfer modes.

Well, file transfers in SharpSSH (and of course in JSch as well for that matter) are always done in binary mode. As far as I know the SFTP protocol didn’t define any specific mode for text (ASCII) file transfers (as opposed for FTP).

I already answered this on the CodeProject forums couple of times (1, 2), but I'll repeat it here so it would be easy to find this topic.

This issue is not specific to SharpPcap but rather a Winpcap issue (I beleive it's a Winpcap bug but couldn't find any info about it).

The issue is that if you use winpcap in a multithreaded application, and you try do FindAllDevices() or even PcapOpen() on a dialup device from a new thread, winpcap will fail by specifying that it doesn't find this device.

To workaround the issue you can call GetAllDevices() and PcapOpen() from the main thread and use the new thread to use the already opened device. If you see similar issue even on a single threaded application, adding a [STAThread] attribute on your Main function will probably fix the issue.

I get these kind of questions a lot, so I will try to explain a bit the concept of expect.

The whole point of expect is to simulate a session of a real interactive user. A real user typically log into an SSH server using an SSH client. We establish this functionality by creating the SshShell object and connect it:

After a user has successfully logged in (and before he start entering commands), he typically gets a Shell prompt (sometimes before the prompt you would also get a welcome message). In any case, at this point in our code we need to read the initial response from the server. Depends on your server initial response you should expect this prompt, typically it will just be the regular shell prompt:

If from some reason you skip this part, the response you read from the channel will be out of sync, meaning when you write a command and then call expect you will get the response of the previous prompt.

At this point, the user is ready to start entering commands. After each command you should always call expect with the string you want to match.

(See related post on the CodeProject forums page)

The following sample shows how to use the SshExec class of SharpSSH:

The following sample shows how to use expect concept with the SshShell class of the SharpSSH library. This sample is also available in the SharpSSH examples found inside the source package zip file.

SshExpectTest.cs