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
