Multi-BOINC Manager

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Multi-BOINC Manager

What is it?
It is a user interface for the boinc client. It looks (and kind of feels) like BOINC Manager but manages multiple computers like BOINCView.

Why?
1. BOINCView is no longer supported.
2. People with multiple computers find switching in BOINC Manager to be a pain.
3. BAM doesn't show task status, event logs, etc.
4. I was bored.

Where can I get it?

It is available in the download folder of the Collatz web site. The link is: http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz..._v0.97.0.2.zip

How do I install it?
I got rid of the MSI since after the past re-write it is now a single executable written 100% in C#. Just unzip to a folder of your choice and double click on the .exe

Requirements:
1. .Net Framwork 4.0 (not the client, but the full version since it uses System.Web to launch web pages and project links and encode/decode the html in the notices)
2. BOINC 6.x.x or later

Know issues:
1. I still have to add the preferences screens. They are a royal pain since they seem to change in every single BOINC version and therefore it has to be able to generate the correct output for each different BOINC version because unrecognized XML elements tend to make BOINC crash because it uses a home-made XML parser which isn't XML 1.0 compliant.

2. In order to change the cc_config.xml flags on a remote computer, you need access to the administrative share (e.g. \\computername\c$ )on the remote computer since the boinc client does not have a remote procedure call that writes the cc_config file. Cached network credentials may be used. It will not prompt if it does not have access. The same is true for reading the notices from remote computers.

3. If MBM loses its connection with a remote computer, there is no way to reconnect at the moment. You have to exit and restart MBM.

4. The configuration is stored in C:\ProgramData\MultiBOINCManager\MultiBOINCManager .xml on Vista/Win7/Win2008. Delete it to start with a clean install and it should be re-created automatically the next time MBM is started.