RemoteViewing

🖥️ A .NET-native VNC client and server library 🖥️

It supports Raw, Hextile, Copyrect, and Zlib encodings, and includes a Windows Forms and WPF control to make embedding VNC in your program extremely easy.

✨ Features • 📦 Installation • 🚀 Usage • 🎯 Frameworks • 📄 License

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✨ Features

• 🔷 Pure .NET Implementation - No native dependencies required
• 🔄 VNC Client & Server - Full support for both client and server roles
• 📦 Multiple Encodings - Raw, Hextile, Copyrect, and Zlib compression
• 🎨 Color Depth Support - 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit color modes
• 🪟 UI Controls - Ready-to-use controls for Windows Forms and WPF
• 📋 Clipboard Sharing - Bidirectional clipboard synchronization
• 📊 Performance Monitoring - Built-in FPS, bandwidth, and CPU statistics
• 🔍 AutoSize Mode - Automatic scaling with proper coordinate transformation

📦 Installation

Available on NuGet:

Package	NuGet
Lemutec.RemoteViewing
Lemutec.RemoteViewing.Windows.Forms
Lemutec.RemoteViewing.WPF

Install via NuGet Package Manager:

# Core library
dotnet add package Lemutec.RemoteViewing

# Windows Forms control
dotnet add package Lemutec.RemoteViewing.Windows.Forms

# WPF control
dotnet add package Lemutec.RemoteViewing.WPF

🚀 Usage

🪟 VNC Client (Windows Forms)

using RemoteViewing.Vnc;
using RemoteViewing.Windows.Forms;

// Add VncControl to your form, then connect:
var options = new VncClientConnectOptions();
options.Password = "your-password".ToCharArray();

vncControl.Client.Connect("hostname", 5900, options);

🪟 VNC Client (WPF)

using RemoteViewing.Vnc;
using RemoteViewing.WPF;

// Add VncControl to your window, then connect:
var options = new VncClientConnectOptions();
options.Password = "your-password".ToCharArray();

vncControl.Client.Connect("hostname", 5900, options);

🖧 VNC Server

using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using RemoteViewing.Vnc;
using RemoteViewing.Vnc.Server;
using RemoteViewing.Windows.Forms.Server;

// Listen for connections
var listener = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Any, 5900);
listener.Start();

var client = listener.AcceptTcpClient();

// Configure server options
var options = new VncServerSessionOptions();
options.AuthenticationMethod = AuthenticationMethod.Password;

// Create and start session
var session = new VncServerSession();
session.PasswordProvided += (s, e) => e.Accept("password".ToCharArray());
session.SetFramebufferSource(new VncScreenFramebufferSource("Desktop", Screen.PrimaryScreen));
session.Connect(client.GetStream(), options);

🎯 Supported Frameworks

Package	Supported Frameworks
Lemutec.RemoteViewing	.NET Framework 4.6.2-4.8, .NET Standard 2.0/2.1, .NET 5.0-10.0
Lemutec.RemoteViewing.Windows.Forms	.NET Framework 4.6.2-4.8, .NET 5.0-10.0 (Windows)
Lemutec.RemoteViewing.WPF	.NET Framework 4.6.2-4.8, .NET 5.0-10.0 (Windows)

📡 VNC Protocol Support

Feature	Client	Server
Raw Encoding	✅	✅
Hextile Encoding	✅	✅
Copyrect Encoding	✅	✅
Zlib Encoding	✅	✅
Password Authentication	✅	✅
Clipboard Sharing	✅	✅
8-bit Color	✅	✅
16-bit Color	✅	✅
32-bit Color	✅	✅

📄 License

This project is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License. See LICENSE.txt for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• 👨‍💻 Original author: James F. Bellinger
• 📚 zlib compression support uses a C# port of zlib's deflate code