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EntryPointDescription
Packages have at least one Module called the Entry Point DLL which is the module loaded by the host framework (either WinGate process and/or WinGate Management Console process) and initialised via the Mandatory module functions.

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Modules can have dependency files which are specified in the Manifest file. Dependency files are files that a module requires in order to function. Specifying a dependency in a manifest file does several things:

  • It ensures the file is protected against tampering by placing an MD5 of the file inside the signed manifest file.
  • It ensures that the file is synchronised between the WinGate Engine and WinGate Management Console. See Package Synchronisation for more information.

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Within a module you have components which are sets of common functionality that you register with WinGate. Although in practice there is normally only one component registered for each module, a module can register any number of components.

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