I got some request for the old vb.net 1.1 versions of the controls which are not online at codeplex.

You can download it from this site now but they will be completely unsupported (mostly because I don't have VS2003 installed anymore...) and I don't know if this version is the latest.

It is the latest that I've found on my backup but if somebody has a more current version please share it.

Here are the download links

	XPCC.net 1.1 Sourcecode
	XPCC.net 1.1 Setup Files

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