A BitTorrent client completely written in C#?
Is there a BitTorrent client written completely (I mean completely) written in C# ? I am aware of the BitTorrent clients written in mono, I absolutely love it.
Are there any other opensource BitTorrent clients other than MonoTorrent & BitSharp written in C# which is under development?
Just wondering how much of an interest an "opensource bit torrent client in C#" would generate amongst C# programmer folks out there.
EDIT: Do check out Michael Stum's Pumpkin torrent on http://pumpkintorrent.codeplex.com/
@Michael: thanks for sharing the project url.
@Allan: thanks for MonoTorrent ;)
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Unfortunately i don't have 50 reputation to add comments, so I have to write another answer. My question was directed at this comment:
"but honeslty I feel it's still got a long way to go to be on par with other opensource bit torrent clients."
What features do you feel are missing that makes it inferior to other libraries/clients? An incomplete list of features includes:
- 100% platform independent
- IPV6 support
- Super-seeding
- A full bittorrent tracker
- DHT
- Peer exchange (utorrent style)
- Encryption
- Memory cache
- Prioritised downloading
- Selective downloading (technically this is just a subset of Prioritised downloading)
- Fast Peer extensions
- Local peer discovery,
- Ban lists (whitelisting/blacklisting of IPs at the same time)
- Magnet link downloads
- Endgame mode
- Libtorrent extension protocol
- rate limiting (per torrent/global)
- Http seeding (webseeding) - getright style
- Individual file relocation
- What else do you want ;)
So, is it just a case of you not realising the full potential of monotorrent or are there features missing that you consider critical? If so, patches are always welcome.
""written on mono" is never a bad thing. It just I was looking for something on MS .Net"
I think you misunderstand. MonoTorrent/bitsharp does build and run on MS.NET ;) All you have to do is check the code out from SVN, open MonoTorrent.sln and hit F5.
Hope that helps.