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Real-Time Zip for Silverlight : zip Silverlight, unzip Silverlight, compress, uncompress, streaming, intermediate storage, temporary files, aes


Adds zip/unzip to any Silverlight 4 or 3 app. Uses no intermediate disk/memory storage.
Current version for Silverlight 4: 5.1 (History)
Current version for Silverlight 3: 4.3
Platform: Silverlight 4 / 3
Price: $599.95 USD for a 1-year subscription
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Real-Time Zip for Silverlight Updates : deflate64, password, dotnet, encryption, pkzip, winzip, info-zip, zlib

Major features
  • Lets developers add zip and unzip capabilities to any Silverlight 4 or 3 application, quickly and easily. Compresses and uncompresses files without resorting to intermediate disk/memory storage or temporary files, making it the perfect match for Silverlight: it needs no local write access.
  • The product's main ZipWriter and ZipReader classes use any seekable or non-seekable Stream-based object as the target or source Zip archive, respectively, for complete flexibility and “on-the-fly” compression/decompression.
  • Lightweight libraries.
  • Compression starts as soon as data has been received: no waiting for all of the files, or even for complete files. Doesn’t need to know in advance the number or size of files.
  • Transfer of the Zip archive over a network can begin immediately, and the remainder of the archive becomes available as it is compressed.
  • Secure: Because no temporary files are used while creating a Zip file, there is less chance of unauthorized access or modification of files during the Zip creation process
  • Archived files are extracted and available instantly for further processing even if the component is still receiving the Zip archive.
  • The size or number of files in a Zip archive has absolutely no impact on memory and disk-space requirements.
  • Just a few methods and properties are needed to perform powerful Zip compression/extraction.
  • Supports the BZip2, BWT, Deflate, Deflate64™, and PPMd compression algorithms.
  • Supports the PPMd compression algorithm.
  • AES encryption and decryption are supported for maximum WinZip compatibility.
  • The only library to provide WinZip 12 compatibility, supporting the LZMA algorithm for improved compression in certain situations. Note: Zip files using WinZip 12’s special JPEG recompression feature are not supported. (New in v2.0)
  • UTF-8 character encoding in headers for improved support of international characters in filenames and comments is provided. (New in v2.0)
  • Events and properties to monitor and control the Zip writing/reading processes are also provided.
  • Reads the Xceed Unicode Extra Header, so it can now preserve filenames with Unicode characters. Very useful for handling international characters.
  • Compatible with older zip tools. (New in v5.1)
  • The ZipWriter can generate uncompressed zip files that the product's ZipReader can read increasing flexibility (combines the Deflate format and no compression). (New in v5.1)
  • Works seamlessly with Xceed Upload for Silverlight
.NET technology
  • 100% managed code written in C#. (Complete source code available through a Blueprint subscription.)
  • Object-oriented design created specifically for Silverlight 4 or 3.
  • Seamless integration with the Silverlight base class libraries.
  • All error handling works through Silverlight exception classes.
  • CLS compliant (Common Language Specification).
  • Does not use unsafe blocks for minimal permission requirements.
  • Documentation fully integrated into Visual Studio
  • VB.NET and C# sample applications.