Ultimate .NET ZIP Component - Zip for C#, VB.NET & ASP.NET

Overview

Features

• Creating and modifying ZIP files easily
• .NET Technology
• Microsoft ClickOnce Compatible
• Supports many .NET Platforms
• Supports event-driven (Asynchronous) and blocking (Synchronous) Design
• Flexibility
• Fully Documented
• Complete Zip & unzip samples in VB.NET, C#, and ASP.NET
• Royalty-free

Creating and modifying ZIP files easily

The ZIP component offers a comprehensive set of classes for compressing and decompressing archive files, providing the developer with everything that he needs to incorporate zip and unzip functionality in an application as listed below:

• WinZip, PKZIP, and UNIX gZip compatible
• Classic Pkzip encryption or AES encryption
• 128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit AES encryption standard
• Supports for the Zip64 zip file format
• Supports BZip2 compression algorithm
• Nine (9) compression levels, individual compression level can be set for each file
• Create new zip files or update existing zip files in stream (can be on disk or in memory stream, buffer)
• Extract zip files to disk, memory stream or memory buffer
• Supports Wildcard for batch operations
• Add, move, remove, rename and change attributes of files and folders in a zip file, on disk or in memory
• Update files in a zip file, on disk or in memory
• List contents of zip file with complete file specifications (compression level, file attributes, zipped size, original size, compression rate and CRC)
• Set individual password for each file
• Supports Long file names
• Supports Unicode file names
• High-performance compression engine
• Ability to test files in a zip file
• Control the path information stored in a zip file for each file or folder
• Recursively zip or unzip entire directories and their contents

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.NET Technology

By using 100% managed code written in C#, the Ultimate ZIP component takes advantage of the numerous built-in features of the .NET Framework to enhance performance, moreover, the component is CLS compliant, and it does not use any unsafe blocks for minimal permission requirements. In addition, the component is highly compatible with Microsoft ClickOnce.

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Supports many .NET Platforms

Ultimate ZIP Component for .NET supports the following platforms:

• Windows Forms
• Web Forms
• Web Services

In addition, it is also possible to use the component in PowerShell - Microsoft’s new command console and scripting language.

Ultimate ZIP is fully compatible with Visual Studio 2005 (.NET 2.0) and Visual Studio 2008 (.NET 3.5), as well as Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0). As a benefit, you are always up-to-date with Microsoft's Technologies when using our products.

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Supports event-driven (Asynchronous) and blocking (Synchronous) Design

Most applications written with the ZIP component will be synchronous. Synchronous method gives you the ease-of-use, but it can only returns the control back to the caller after it has finished, meaning that it blocks the execution of the caller for a period of time. Using synchronous method is recommended when you only need to execute one ZIP operation at a time.

You might decide that your design requires an asynchronous operation when it is needed to manage email messages simultaneously. Asynchronous methods provide a great deal of power. Asynchronous method is executed on a thread separate from the calling thread. Such operation is useful when an ZIP operation is time consuming and other codes need to execute without waiting for the initial operation to complete. In addition, the user interface will be most responsive when asynchronous methods are used.

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Flexibility

The ZIP component has been designed with a great degree of flexibility and can be used with a wide variety of programming languages and different types of development environments. Available as a managed .NET class, it is fully supported by languages such as Visual Basic, Visual C#, J#, Managed C++, Borland C# Builder, and Delphi.

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Fully Documented

As important as functionality, features and stability are, comprehensive documentation is equally as important to the application developer. This is why the Atp ZIP for .NET product includes a Developer's Guide and a complete Technical Reference which documents every property, method and event supported by the component. A printable version of the documentation is included with the product, as well as context-sensitive online help which can be accessed directly from within the development environment.

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Complete Zip and Unzip sample applications in C#, VB.NET, and ASP.NET

In addition to the fully documented Developer's Guide and a complete Technical Reference, Ultimate ZIP component also includes a number of samples with full source code which help you become familiar with the features of the component and provide code which you can re-use in your own applications. The setup package contains one complete ZIP manager application.

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Royalty-free

ATP understands today's software development requirements which often require support for multiple operating systems and different programming languages. As with all ATP components, the product is licensed to a single developer, and applications built using the ZIP component can be redistributed to as many end-users as needed without additional royalties or runtime licensing fees. Developers are also permitted to install the product on different development systems as long as they are the only one using it and there is no chance that it can be used by more than one developer at the same time.

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