A BitTorrent client completely written in C# ?

Question

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 ;)

Answer 1

MonoTorrent

or

BitSharp

Answer 2

MonoTorrent is wonderful client and server library. There is a GUI written on GTK# - Monsoon for now it runs only at Linux. If you have a time to spend you could write a WPF GUI or with little modification to port Monsoon to Windows.

Look for Alan McGovern for more information.

Answer 3

What makes you think it's basic? ;) It sports more advanced features than a lot of other open (and closed) source torrent libraries. I think you've very much underestimated what monotorrent offers.

Answer 4

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:

1) 100% platform independent 2) IPV6 support 3) Super-seeding 4) A full bittorrent tracker 5) DHT 6) Peer exchange (utorrent style) 7) Encryption 8) Memory cache 9) Prioritised downloading 10) Selective downloading (technically this is just a subset of Prioritised downloading) 11) Fast Peer extensions 12) Local peer discovery, 13) Ban lists (whitelisting/blacklisting of IPs at the same time) 14) Magnet link downloads 15) Endgame mode 16) Libtorrent extension protocol 17) rate limiting (per torrent/global) 18) Http seeding (webseeding) - getright style 19) Individual file relocation 20) 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.