CodePlex.SpaceBlock

Project Description

SpaceBlock is a simple Windows front-end for managing Amazon S3, Nirvanix, and now Microsoft SSDS online storage accounts.

This project is fully open-sourced via the MIT license, contributions welcome!

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To Install and Run (via ClickOnce):

http://spaceblock.s3.amazonaws.com/install
Once installed, the application can be launched via the start menu

Features

• Amazon S3 Integration
• Support for EU buckets
• Handles difficult key/bucket names (like unicode chars outside of the ASCII range & invalid urls)
• Edit ACL, Bucket Logging Status, generate signed URLs
• Leverages the cross-platform CodePlex.Resourceful REST library (http://www.codeplex.com/resourceful)
• Define multiple accounts (e.g. allowing for streaming transfer between S3 accounts)
• Vista compatible
• Saved settings encrypted via the Windows Data Protection API (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995355.aspx)

Screenshot

Solution Layout

The codebase currently consists of two solutions:

SpaceBlock.2005 (VS2005)

• CodePlex.SpaceBlock
• Core library (for abstracting file systems, etc)
• CodePlex.SpaceBlock.MSBuild
• MSBuild task library
• CodePlex.SpaceBlock.NAnt
• NAnt task library
• CodePlex.SpaceBlock.Test
• MSTest project
• CodePlex.SpaceBlock.UI
• WinForms front-end

SpaceBlock.2008 (VS2008)

• CodePlex.SpaceBlock
• CodePlex.SpaceBlock.UI
• CodePlex.SpaceBlock.Test35
• API examples using some of the new c# 3.0 features

What's New

• Release 0.0.2.2
• Added the ability to configure the S3 service host (to connect to an S3 clone instance via baltic-avenue)

• Release 0.0.2.1
• Added a new file system type based on the Sql Server Data Services beta service http://www.microsoft.com/sql/dataservices/default.mspx

• Release 0.0.2.0
• Added mime types for flash files (FLV and SWF)
• Fixed Nirvanix file system for file uploads (broken by a Nirvanix api upgrade)
• Using the new Resourceful library 0.0.2

• Release 0.0.1.13
• Handles intermittent S3 server errors more gracefully (retry requests with exponential backoff) - especially noticeable when uploading a large number of small files
• New Feature: Bucket creation dialog now shows bucket name availability

• New Feature: Remember values used in the Edit Metadata dialog (user request)

• New Feature: Ability to display file times in UTC time (user request)

• Release 0.0.1.12
• Enhancement: Prompt to exit if transfers are active
• Enhancement: Skip S3 log files that cannot be accessed (occasionally unreadable)
• New Feature: Set S3 default transfer ACL to private, public-read, or bucket (private or public-read depending on bucket ACL)

• Release 0.0.1.11
• Ability to perform server-side file renames on S3! (thanks to the new COPY object beta feature)

• Release 0.0.1.10
• Ability to set custom HTTP headers when uploading to S3

• Release 0.0.1.9
• Enhanced Amazon S3 url generation dialog to include public urls (user request) & virtual host-style urls in addition to signed urls

• Release 0.0.1.8
• Quick fix to underlying CodePlex.Resourceful library that should improve S3 retry logic

• Release 0.0.1.7
• Enhancement: Deleting large numbers of files from an S3 filesystem is now much faster (and happens in the background)
• New Feature: Open file - launches the file in the OS-default application (or in explorer if no default)

• Release 0.0.1.6
• New Feature: Transfers View - manage multiple simultaneous transfers between file systems (similar to Opera's transfers tab).

• Release 0.0.1.5
• Automatic handling of time differences between the local machine and Amazon's S3 servers. Should minimize or eliminate RequestTimeTooSkewed responses.

• Release 0.0.1.4
• Reduced the number of resources loaded during the initial ClickOnce launch
• Up-front file-system validation
• What's New dialog after every version upgrade
• New Feature: Support for virtual drives backed by the Nirvanix storage network (http://www.nirvanix.com)

• Release 0.0.1.3
• New Feature: Analyze S3 Server Logs context-menu option. Select one or more log files to enable command.