Jeff Key

Once I started using NetPing I realized it would be a good place to add some remote management functionality I usually need to go elsewhere to find, so I've added some stuff (as well as significant speed improvements) and put it on the site.

Here are the changes:

• Added multithreaded pinging, which is much faster than the old version. User can set number of threads used to 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25.
• Added "monitoring" of availability. User can set ping interval to 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 seconds and be notified when availability changes.
• Added optional listing of unavailable hosts.
• Added ability to connect to host with Remote Desktop.
• Added ability to connect to host with Windows Computer Management.
• Added ability to get host's system information via systeminfo.exe, which is parsed and presented in HTML.
• Added persistence of start/end addresses.
• Added icon, small icon and list view.

I apologize for not getting the source up yet; I still haven't had time to properly comment everything. I've added multithreading via asynchronous method calls and I think this may be useful to some as it also involves the UI and multi-threading rule #1 in WinForms is that non-UI threads don't mess with the UI. Fun stuff.

If anyone wants the source before I can post it, please let me know and I'll ship it off.