Category Archives: MatriX

MatriX Screencast #2 published

Posted by gnauck on December 13, 2013 0 comments
The 2nd screencast has been published. This tutorial covers the following: installation of a local Openfire XMPP server configuration of the server creating user accounts starting XMPP client development on the local server More screencasts and tutorials for other XMPP server software is coming.

NuGet package available

Posted by gnauck on December 3, 2013 0 comments
Some of our customers asked for NuGet packages. The roadmap of our development is heavily impacted by our customer requests. We are always receptive to your criticism, ideas and praise When you prefer NuGet for managing your references then you can start using it for MatriX as well now. You can find the MatriX NuGet […]

MatriX Screencast #1 published

Posted by gnauck on December 1, 2013 0 comments
We have published the first MatriX screencast. This small tutorial shows you howto download and install the MatriX XMPP SDK. And howto login with the MiniClient example using your Gmail Id. You an find the screencasts here. More screencasts are coming soon…

Await MatriX

Posted by gnauck on August 27, 2013 0 comments
C# 5.0 brought us the great new Async and Await feature. It helps to avoid bottlenecks when it comes to performance or to improve the responsiveness of UI applications. Both of them were never a problem in MatriX, because its completely asynchronous internal. We helped GUI developers a lot by handling all multi threading and […]

MatriX for WinRT released

Posted by gnauck on November 12, 2012 0 comments
Now with the availability of Windows 8 and the first Windows 8 devices we have released the WinRT version of MatriX to the public. The API and supported features are nearly the same as in all our other MatriX editions. Start to use the power of XMPP in your WinRT apps now!! The WinRT version […]

Web clients with MatriX and SignalR

Posted by gnauck on August 20, 2012 8 comments
Persistent realtime connections for ASP.NET in code behind to the web browser were hard to implement in the past. There hasn’t been a ASP.NET component for this for a while. With SignalR there is an asynchronous realtime signaling library for ASP.NET now that a team at Microsoft is working on. Using SignalR its pretty easy […]

MatriX for WinRT

Posted by gnauck on May 22, 2012 2 comments
Windows 8 with the new Metro UI is coming soon. We were working hard in the last weeks to port MatriX also to WinRT. Because WinRT is only a subset of the full .NET Framework and introduces many new techniques, namespaces and classes we had to rewrite lots of our code. We are happy to […]

BOSH prebind in MatriX and attach to Strophe

Posted by gnauck on January 31, 2012 0 comments
Why prebind and attach? When your web application is already logged in and needs to establish a XMPP connection you have a seamless and secure solution with prebind and attach. You don’t have to ask the user to provide the credentials again, and you don’t have to render the credentials insecure in your HTML output. […]

MatriX XMPP library for iOS and Android available

Posted by gnauck on January 7, 2012 13 comments
MatriX XMPP library for iOS and Android is in Beta status now. Both versions are based on MonoTouch and Mono for Android from Xamarin. Using this technology you can easily port your existing MatriX based c# XMPP apps to iOS and Android and resuse most of your existing code and business logic. When you are […]

Microsoft adds XMPP support to Windows Live Messenger

Posted by gnauck on December 15, 2011 8 comments
This are great news for the XMPP community. Microsoft has added XMPP client support to their Windows Live servers. You can read the announcement here. Microsoft does not support any of the mandatory SASL mechanisms SCRAM, DIGEST-MD5 and PLAIN. Instead they have implemented their own X-MESSENGER-OAUTH2 SASL mechanism. This means that all existing XMPP Software […]