Welcome to the documentation for Xceed Real-Time Zip for Silverlight and Xceed Real-Time Zip for Windows Phone. These lightweight libraries lets developers add zip and unzip capabilities to any Silverlight 3 application and up, or to any Windows Phone application or game (using Silverlight for Windows Phone and XNA Framework 4.0), quickly and easily. These products can compress and uncompress files without resorting to intermediate disk/memory storage or temporary files, making it the perfect match for Silverlight: it needs no local write access. This is especially an advantage with low-memory devices such as smartphones.
The first and only professional solution for zipping and unzipping within the rich Internet applications that Silverlight makes possible, Xceed Real-Time Zip for Silverlight and for Windows Phone deliver the utmost flexibility for your compression/decompression needs, such as unzipping user-provided or remotely hosted Zip files, whose data the application can then consume or send elsewhere over the network (using FTP, HTTP, WCF, etc.); or zipping user-selected files or data created by the Silverlight application based on user input, and then sending the zipped file over the network.
Easy to use and needing just a few methods to perform powerful streaming Zip compression/extraction, Xceed Real-Time Zip for Silverlight and for Windows Phone support the BZip2, BWT, Deflate, and Deflate64™ compression methods. AES encryption and decryption are supported for maximum security and WinZip compatibility. WinZip 12 is also supported (LZMA), and UTF-8. PPMd is also supported. Events and properties let you monitor and control the zip/unzip operations. Xceed Real-Time Zip for Silverlight also works perfectly with Xceed Upload for Silverlight.
Written in 100% managed C# code, these lightweight libraries come with full support for VB.NET and C# and include sample applications. To increase development momentum, the classes integrate seamlessly with the base class library, and the components offers comprehensive Visual Studio-style documentation.
The product is available through a subscription that delivers much more than just a perpetual license for versions received during the subscription. You also get a year of great services: expert priority support and access to new versions, new features, and bug fixes. Additional years can be added at a discounted price at the time of purchase or before the subscription expires; a new subscription is required after it has expired. Subscriptions are available for the individual control, or for Xceed Ultimate Suite, or Xceed Data Manipulation Suite, which both include it. Choosing the Blueprint subscription adds the full C# source.
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For nearly 20 years, Xceed has been creating top-of-the-line WPF, .NET, Silverlight, and COM software components. Our current product line has over 100 professional components, which are used by more than 100,000 professional developers worldwide, including by Microsoft in many applications such as Visual Studio Team System 2010, Microsoft Office, Windows Home Server.