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Two months back I dug up the project files of BN+ Converter Pro, a .Net application I created when I was in secondary school, and did some high level refactoring to optimize it for .Net 4.0 and version 3 of my .Net class library. This was soon after I released a similar update for BN+ Brute Force Hash Attacker, another of my old .Net apps. On top of the changes I made, and a very few new features I’ve added, the code is now publicly available under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3 or later on SourceForge. I waited with releasing this since I wanted the app to be compiled with the stable release of .Net framework, which was released a while back now.

Changes in this release

* Use of BN+ Library 3.0.1
* Use of native components of .Net framework 4.0
* Implemented a new update platform
* Refactored namespaces and moved around a bunch of files
* Redesigned the about interface
* Redesigned the help menu
* Moved documentation to a wiki page
* Added ROT 5, ROT 13, ROT 18 and ROT 48 codecs
* Made the source code available under the GPL on SourceForge

Downloads

• Setup file (zip, windows installer, includes update platform)
• Executables tarball (latest version of the executables, straight from the SVN repo)
• SVN repostory

Links

• Project home
• Documentation

This is a screen shot of the previous version. This part of the interface is pretty much unchanged.

This screenshot shows the redesigned about interface.

the terms of the GNU General Public License

I’ve just released a new version of BN+ framework. It features a variety of new classes since version 2.0.2 plus some bug fixes and stability improvements. Also some classes have been added the the class library or control library repositories on BN+ Discussions, and a few of them now have detailed articles on The Code Project. Here you have an outtake from the release notes:

New classes
* BugSubmitter: A dialog that enables user to submit variouse types of bugs with build in validation. Sends it’s info to a webservice.
* PasswordDialog: Password editting dialog with optional authentication and live validation .
* SimpleLoginDialog: A simple login dialog that prompts for a password.
* FileDownloader: A class for downloading files in the background that supports info about their progress, the total progress, cancellation, pausing, and resuming. The downloads will run on a separate thread so you don’t have to worry about multihreading yourself.

Revised classes
* CryptoProvider: Now allows you to pass more advanced settings for AES and offers easier to use methods for RSA, DES and TrippleDES.
* CryptoStr: Has been rewritten to work with the new CryptoProvider and is now easier to use.
* Updater: A bug in the version compare algorithm has been fixed
* BruteForceAttacker: New version included (BN+ Framework 2.0.2 contained an unstable alpha build of this version)

* …

Further development
* The CyrptoProvider class will be rewritten from scratch and be made abstract, and serve as a base for separate DES, TDES, RSA and AES CryptoProviders.
* BruteForceAttacker will be made more modular and work on multiple threads.
* FileDownloader will get support for multiple downloads at the same time and segmented downloads.

I’d also like to thank everyone who helped with this project by providing bug reports, suggestions, contributions, or by simply using it!

If you are interested and consider to use this framework, please review the official topic and framework documentation.