Rebex FTP for .NET

Rebex FTP for .NET is a file-transfer component for .NET languages (such as C# or VB.NET). It allows you to FTP files directly from your application - either synchronously or asynchronously, in active or passive mode, binary or ascii. All popular FTP and proxy servers are supported. Upload from memory, resume aborted transfers & more.

Upload your data directly to the server without creating any temporary files on disk. Resume transfers that were aborted by a network error or user action. Open a remote file as a stream and work with it as if it was accessible localy. Monitor upload and download status and progress using custom events. Send raw FTP commands.

Parses any directory listing format

Rebex FTP for .NET library automated directory listing parser handles all popular FTP servers on Unix, Windows and Netware platforms. It is also easily extensible by user to support even the most exotic or future formats.

14 samples in VB.NET and C# including 2 fully functional FTP clients

FTP for .NET samples focus on real-life scenarios. In many situations, you only have to copy & paste code from one of the samples to your production code. Need to download a file or upload the whole folder? Do some background transfer without locking your GUI? Want a complete command line, WinForm, FTP client for testing the component and making sure it works? You'll get samples for all of the above situations and more. Also, all samples are written in both C# or VB.NET.

Major features

• Robust code - automated tests are supplied
• Designed to offer maximum flexibility while being the easiest to use
• Supports .NET 1.1, .NET 2 .NET 3, .NET 3.5, ,NET 4 and Mono
• Free one year upgrades and support
• Upload and download from or to RAM
• Many samples, including multithreaded WinForm clients with full C# or VB.NET source code
• Automated directory listing parser for the majority of popular FTP servers on Unix, Windows and Netware platforms, easily extensible to support exotic or unknown formats

Feature list

• Stable and thoroughly tested code
• 100% managed code
• Complete source code is optionally available (C#)
• .NET CF version available for FTP on Windows CE and PocketPC devices
• Rebex FTP for .NET is designed to be used easily from your code
• Support for asynchronous operations
• Active and passive transfer modes
• Binary and ASCII transfers
• All common firewalls and proxy servers are supported
• Support for WebRequest and WebResponse pluggable protocols - download a file using any protocol in just few lines of code
• Samples for C# and VisualBasic .NET
• Special class for manipulating file and directory listings. Wildcards, regular expressions and symlinks supported
• Creating and deleting files and folders
• PutUniqueFile support (STOU command)
• Events and delegates for effortless integration with hosting applications
• Can be used in both client and server applications
• REST command support - resume file transfers after interruption
• Server specific commands supported (SITE command) - e.g. setting access permissions on Unix FTP servers
• Automated directory listing parser (LIST command) with all common formats supported.
• Support for custom listing parsers to handle exotic LIST response formats
• Raw FTP command and response support
• Stream support - read from and write to remote files on the fly
• Monitor download state with the progress event
• Error handling with .NET exceptions
• Free one-year support
• Free one-year bugfixes and upgrades
• MDTM (last modified time) and SIZE (the file size) commands support
• Compliant with RFC 959, RFC 1579 and many extensions in common use

Supported file and directory listing formats

• Unix ls (ProFTPd, Wu-FTPd, Microsoft FTP and many others)
• DOS (Microsoft FTP and others)
• Netware
• DJ Bernstein's EPLF
• glFTPd ansi-colored list
• VMS and MultiNet (both single and multiline)
• support for custom list parsers

Supported proxy servers

• Socks4
• Socks4a (Socks4 with domain name resolving)
• Socks5
• HTTP proxy CONNECT method (ftp://user:password@site)
• FTP SITE (SITE with logon)
• FTP USER/PASS (USER user@firewall@hostname / PASS pass@firewallpass)
• FTP OPEN

Samples

• Complete GUI FTP client (C#, VB.NET)
• Simple console client able to get and set Unix permissions and resume aborted transfers (C#, VB.NET)
• File upload/download (C#, VB.NET)
• Asynchronous file upload/download (C#, VB.NET)
• Displaying detailed file list (C#, VB.NET)
• Pluggable protocols - using WebRequest (C#, VB.NET)