In case you only need to prevent distributing the sensitive information to all DesktopUIs & MobileUIs, you could store this information in a separate config file like 'config.archie' and start this manager with this additional config file '+config config.archie'.

3.14 & 3.15 requires VS 2013 (VC12)
3.16 requires VS 2015 (VC14)

To avoid missing dependencies (and installing extra redistributables) it is easier to use the required compiler, perhaps you could use the required compiler with VS 2017.

For your own managers you can store encrypted values. Is there specific information which you want to have encrypted?

Except that 'WriteHost' should be a string instead of dyn_string I do not see something wrong.

I have attached an example, which should help you get started with a TFTP server.

I do not have an example. But if there is something unclear from the documentation or you have a specific question, we might be able to help you.

Yes, the 'checkUserPassword' function is the place to execute the user name and password check. You could implement a control extension to do the ldap authentication, use a system command or implement the ldap authentication completely in control with the tcp/udp functions. I guess the netPut (and o...

1) By using an empty string as host parameter it should listen to all interfaces.
2) I have read binary data with 'udpRead', so I am sure this is possible. Perhaps you could post your read part to identify the error.

The license should never be a reason to pack bits in dwords. Does your PLC not have enough subscriptions available to read all bits without packing them?

Transferring statusbits is only possible with statistical dp functions.

For a redundant server you can pass the '-server' option twice. In case the first server cannot be reached, it should use the second server.

To monitor file(s) you could also use the command 'tail -f <logfile (pattern)>' instead of the log viewer.