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Xceed Activities for WF by Xceed Software

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Add Zip, secure FTP, Tar, GZip and more activities to your Windows Workflow Foundation applications. Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation provides a set of activities including zipping/unzipping, compressing, decompressing, archiving, sending/receiving (FTP), and deleting for your Windows Workflow Foundation applications. All Workflow activities provide a rich set of properties and events, keeping you fully informed during the operations and giving you complete control. Complete source code available in the Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation Blueprint Edition. Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation is also available as part of Xceed Ultimate Suite.

Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation lets you easily integrate data manipulation into software created to run on Microsoft's Windows Workflow Foundation. Provided are activities letting you perform essential Zip, Ftp, Tar, and GZip operations. Whether you need to build a process server or represent business logic, Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation lets you easily integrate data manipulation into your workflows. Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation lets developers visualize and manipulate the data manipulation steps of a procedure as discrete units, letting them concentrate on an abstraction of a workflow, rather than with methods, parameters, blocks of code, etc. Furthermore, as a result of this abstraction, it is easier for non-programmers to participate in the development of workflows.

Written with 100% managed code in C#, it includes a variety of VB.NET and C# sample applications to get you started.

Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation Features:

Workflow Foundation / .NET technology Created entirely for Microsoft's Windows Workflow Foundation and .NET 3.0

100% managed code written in C#

Includes a variety of VB.NET and C# sample applications to get you started

Complete source code available in the Blueprint Edition

Comprehensive documentation fully integrated into Visual Studio is provided

All error handling works through .NET exception classes

Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation Major Features:

Provides activities for adding the most important Zip, FTP, Tar, and GZip operations to Windows Workflow Foundation applications

Rich set of properties and events (byte and file counts) for complete control of all the activities

Automatic validation of required properties in all activities

Triggers only the events your application subscribes to for increased performance

Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation Zip activities

Includes activities for four operations: zipping, unzipping, listing archive contents, and removing files from archives

Recursive zipping or unzipping of entire directories and their contents

Create new zip files or update existing zip files

Option to create powerful, fully customized self-extracting Zip files

Industry standard AES encryption

Support for the Zip64 zip file format, eliminating the 4GB barrier and 16384 file limit

Zip password encryption

Support for reading, writing, and updating Zip archives split into multiple parts

Support for reading, writing, and updating Zip archives that span multiple disks

Information-rich status-report events with byte and file counts, as well as for working with multi-disk Zip archives

PKZip, WinZip or Xceed naming conventions for split Zip file parts

Files can be specified with wildcards

Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation FTP activities

Includes activities for four operations: sending, receiving, listing contents on FTP servers, and removing files from servers

Send and receive files, folders or entire directory structures quickly and easily

Secure FTP through SSL 3.0 and 3.1 (TLS)

RFC 959, 1123, and 1579 compliant

Connections to FTP servers through HTTP proxy servers supported

Data channel protection

Implicit connections

Supports FTP passive mode for firewall and proxy server resilience

Verification flags

Information-rich status-report events with byte and file counts, as well as certificate-related events

Configurable time-out limit

Can send files as ASCII or Binary

Can specify an FTP server by IP address or host name

Can specify files to send, receive or remove using wildcards

Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation Tar activities

Includes activities for four operations: archiving, extracting, listing Tar archive contents, and removing files from archives

Support for GZip format compression of Tar archives

Full read/write compatibility with USTAR format Tar archives

Read compatibility with GNU Tar and Posix Tar archives as long as archive entries do not use the header extensions from either of these formats

Events for following item and byte progression during operations

Xceed Activities for Workflow Foundation GZip activities

Three operations: compressing, decompressing, and listing GZip file contents

Events for following item and byte progression during operations

Xceed FileSystem Core object model

Full access to Xceed's FileSystem Core object model: over 100 additional features

Lets you work with files of any type -- whether they are remote (FTP) or local, or on disk drives, in memory, in Zip, Tar or GZip files -- as easily as if they were local files

All the functionality and capabilities of Xceed Zip for .NET

All the functionality and capabilities of Xceed FTP for .NET

Includes the recent addition of file and folder synchronization: simultaneously synchronize any number and combination of folders and files, of any type, wherever they are located

What's new in Xceed Activities for WF V1.4?

Xceed’s compression products have been updated to incorporate the latest Zip and compression standards by supporting the LZMA algorithm, used by WinZip 12. UTF-8 character encoding in headers is also provided for improved multilingual support.

What's new in Xceed Activities for WF V1.3?

Internal architecture changes in the FTP activities help avoid occasional hang problems and the transfer of empty files, and take advantage of the .NET Framework class SslStream.

What's new in Xceed Activities for WF V1.2?

Service release. Full compatibility with Visual Studio 2008. All samples converted to VS2008 (names of Visual Studio 2005 versions now contain "_VS2005").

What's new in Xceed Activities for WF V1.1?

Added support for PPMd and BZip2 to the Zip activities. Added MODE Z support to the FTP activities.

Add Zip, secure FTP, Tar, GZip and more activities to your Windows Workflow Foundation applications.

Evals & Downloads: Read the Xceed License Agreement, Download the Xceed Ultimate Suite 2009 v5 evaluation on to your computer - Expires after 45 days, Read the Xceed Ultimate Suite Help Files

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET WF, 100% Managed Code

Built Using: Visual C# .NET

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, .NET Framework 3.0

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