Xceed Ultimate Suite

An essential set of 158 flexible, reliable and high-performance controls and libraries, for all Windows platforms. UI controls for your application front-ends and data handling libraries for the back-ends. Frequently updated and backed by a responsive support and development team whose sole ambition is your complete satisfaction.

• 98 WPF controls, including the industrys best datagridand 9themes
  
• 15 .NET, ActiveX/COM and Xamarin data manipulation libraries
  
• 45 Windows Forms and VB6 controls

Key Features:

• All libraries are thoroughly and expertly documented and include a variety of sample applications for Visual Studio 2015/2013/2012/2010/2008.
  
• All libraries are written to be efficient and do not depend on external DLLs.
  
• All are multi-threaded.
  
• Different builds for .NET 2.0/3.5 and .NET 4.0-4.6.1
  
• Different builds for Xamarin
  
• All libraries are feature-rich yet easy to use due to emphasis on intuitive API design.
  
• Source code for the included .NET, WPF, Windows Forms and Xamarin components available with the Blueprint Subscription.

Xceed Ultimate Suite - Features

General Features

Xceed quality throughout

• All components provide royalty-free distribution right, and unlimited server deployment.
• All components are thoroughly and expertly documented and include a variety of sample applications for both Visual Studio 2008 and 2005.
• All components are written to be efficient and do not depend on external DLLs. Most are multi-threaded.
• All components are feature-rich yet easy to use due to the extreme emphasis on intuitive API design.
• Source code for the included .NET components available in the Xceed Ultimate Suite Blueprint Edition.

Compression (.NET/ASP.NET)

• Includes Xceed Zip for .NET with Self-Extractor, a multi-talented, 100% managed compression component with built-in Zip, Tar, GZip, AES encryption, file transfer, filesystem, self-extracting, and multi-location file and folder synchronization capabilities. Lets you tackle more programming tasks with one single component. Supports evey Zip capability under the sun, and FTP through HTTP proxy servers and SSL. Now features the PPMd compression algorithm for superior compression, especially with text and XML files.
• Includes a secondary lightweight compression class library for .NET that easily handles any size of byte array and offers a true .NET pass-through stream.
• Includes Xceed Real-Time Zip for .NET, which lets applications read and write Zip archives without resorting to intermediate disk and memory storage. Its on-the-fly performance is ideal for high-demand server environments, Biztalk servers, diskless operations, I/O-intensive Web sites, or any situation where real-time streaming zip/unzip capabilities are needed. (New in 2007 v4)

Compression (.NET Compact Framework)

• Includes Xceed Zip for .NET Compact Framework, a 100% managed code compression library for .NET featuring powerful, easy to use stream, Zip file manipulation and filesystem classes. Now features Zip64 zip file format.
• Includes a secondary lightweight compression class library for .NET that easily handles any size byte array and offers a true .NET pass-through stream.
• Includes Xceed Self-Extractor Module for creating sharp, fully customizable self-extracting Zip files.
• Includes Xceed Real-Time Zip for .NET CF, which lets mobile applications read and write Zip archives without resorting to intermediate disk and memory storage. Its on-the-fly performance is ideal for high-demand server environments, Biztalk servers, diskless operations, I/O-intensive Web sites, or any situation where real-time streaming zip/unzip capabilities are needed. (New in 2007 v4)

Compression (ActiveX)

• Includes Xceed Zip Compression Library, the industry's highest-performance and feature-rich Zip / Unzip compression component. WinZip-compatible AES strong encryption supported.
• Includes Xceed Self-Extractor Module for creating sharp, fully customizable self-extracting Zip files.
• Includes Xceed Streaming Compression Library for easy, efficient "raw" compression and decompression functionality as well as support for .GZ or .BZ2 files.
• Includes Xceed Backup Library so you can add on-demand or scheduled backup and functionality to your applications, quickly and easily.
• Includes Xceed Zip for x64, a port of Xceed Zip Compression Library to the x86-64 microprocessor architecture, with all the same features as that library. (New in 2007 v2)

Encryption (ActiveX)

• Includes Xceed Encryption Library so you can encrypt and decrypt data with the latest strong algorithms, as well as digitally sign and verify documents.

User Interface (Windows Presentation Foundation)

• Includes Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition, a powerful datagrid control for WPF, Microsofts dynamic new platform! It is 100% stylable and templatable, and features rich in-place editing, powerful grouping with UI virtualization and production-quality views (table and card), each with Classic, XP, Vista, and Media Center OSt themes. Professional Edition brings additional advanced features such as master/detail, fixed columns, and automatic filtering. Advanced-feature updates and priority support with a Vanguard subscription (see the product's Features for details). (New in 2007 v1)
• Includes Xceed 3D Views for WPF, which delivers the kind of compelling and stunning 3D interactivity that end-users have come to expect in todays modern software. (New in 2008 v4)
• Includes Xceed Editors for WPF, a themed and themable set of 7 flexible base editors for WPF, as well as 5 derived controls available in sample apps, for a total of 12 WPF editors. Includes a datepicker and a masked textboxtwo important editor controls that Windows Presentation Foundation lacks. (New in 2008 v4)

User Interface (.NET Windows Forms)

• Includes Xceed Grid for .NET, a multi-talented, advanced, and feature-rich grid component for .NET that offers an extensible object model designed to set new standards for flexibility and ease of use. The only grid with a built-in reporting engine. Includes gradient maps with transparency support and interactive visual styles, and supports Windows Vista themes. Now features cell UI virtualization.
• Includes Xceed SmartUI for .NET for creating user-friendly, state-of-the-art WinForms apps with ease. Offers 10 controls including menubars, toolbars, treeviews, and task panes. Supports themed WinXP, Office XP, Office 2003, and classic Windows styles.
• Xceed Editors for .NET, a modular set of 11 UI input controls such as buttons, combos, masked textboxes, and calendar controls that work together allowing you to create your own control combinations such as a resizeable and editable dropdown listbox. Can also be used in Xceed Grid for .NET as editor controls. Now used in Xceed Grid for .NET as the default editor controls.
• Xceed Docking Windows for .NET, a full-featured docking windows framework that allows your applications to present windows and forms within a slick docking windows environment. Pixel-perfect and functionally faithful recreation of the one you use in Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005. Supports tabbed-MDI.
• Includes Xceed Input Validator for .NET, providing easy-to-use, self-wiring text validation for your Windows Forms controls. Each validation criterion can be configured visually and is then validated at runtime. Fully customizable error messages. Also works with Xceed Grid for .NET on cells or rows.

Internet (Silverlight 2 Beta 2)

• Includes Xceed Real-Time Zip for Silverlight, which adds zip/unzip to any Silverlight 2 application, quickly and easily, without using intermediate disk/memory storage or temporary files. Consequently, its the perfect match for Silverlight: it doesnt need to access the local file system. The first and only professional solution for zipping and unzipping under Silverlight. Works seamlessly with Xceed Upload for Silverlight.
• Includes Xceed Upload for Silverlight, the worlds first commercially available control for Microsofts latest promising new technology, Silverlight 2. Lets you quickly and easily add multi-file and string upload capabilities to Silverlight 2 applications. All upload operations are asynchronous, meaning that the Web page hosting your application remains perfectly responsive and usable throughout the transfer. All this in the beautiful and compelling end-user experience that Silverlight is all about!

Data Manipulation (Workflow Foundation)

• Includes Xceed Activities for WF. This library lets developers easily integrate essential Zip, FTP, Tar, and GZip operations into software created for .NET 3.0 and Workflow Foundation. Exposing a rich set of properties and events, the 15 activities provide operations such as compressing, decompressing, listing contents, sending/receiving files (FTP), and deleting items. (New in 2007 v2)

User Interface (ASP.NET Web Forms)

• Includes Xceed Chart for ASP.NET. This solid, feature-rich chart server control provides extensive ASP.NET support including streaming, image maps, server-side events, temp file cleanup and much more.

User Interface (ActiveX)

• Includes Xceed SmartUI for VB6, the best-selling tool for building Visual Basic 6 user interfaces. Includes over a dozen state-of-the-art controls and a modular and versatile framework for creating your own.

File Transfer (ActiveX)

• Includes feature-rich Xceed FTP Library so you can send, receive or list files on an FTP server. Supports SOCKS 4 and 5 proxy servers.

File Transfer (.NET/ASP.NET)

• Includes Xceed FTP for .NET, a multi-talented, 100% managed, and efficient class library that lets you easily add FTP file transfer, Zip, Tar and GZip capabilities to your .NET and ASP.NET apps through a straightforward and intuitive object model. Lets you do more with one single component. Supports HTTP proxy servers and SSL. File/folder synchronization and QuickZip, QuickCompression, QuickFtp, QuickTar and QuickGZip classes. Now supports MODE Z and the FEAT command (also known as Knowledge of Extra Capabilities).

File Transfer (.NET Compact Framework)

• Includes Xceed FTP for .NET Compact Framework, a feature-rich and efficient class library that lets you easily add FTP file transfer and general file manipulation capabilities to your mobile apps through a straightforward and intuitive object model. Now supports MODE Z and the FEAT command (also known as Knowledge of Extra Capabilities). (New in 2007 v1)

Binary Encoding (ActiveX)

• Includes Xceed Binary Encoding Library so you can convert binary data into ASCII text or vice-versa in a variety of formats.

New Features in 2009 Version 5

• Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition v3.5 features a beautiful new view called Tableflow: it offers fast animated smooth scrolling (with inertia) for impressive UI performance (works with data virtualization), sticky group headers and master/detail headers, and parent rows, as well as full-column animated drag and drop reordering. Also new are status indicator glyphs and filtering, for datagrids bound to a virtualizing collection.

• Added Xceed Professional Themes for WPF, which provides five flawless WPF themes that can be used to style any official Microsoft WPF control. Implicit styles are supported, so only a couple of lines of XAML are needed to apply beautiful, uniform styles to any WPF application. Includes Glass, Media, and Office 2007 themes. Xceed Real-Time Zip for Silverlight (v2.1) and Xceed Upload for Silverlight (v2.1) are both now compiled with Silverlight 3.

• Xceed Real-Time Zip for Silverlight (v2.1) and Xceed Upload for Silverlight (v2.1) are both now compiled with Silverlight 3.

• The .NET products in this version of Xceed Ultimate Suite work only with .NET Framework 2.0 and up. Users developing with .NET 1.1 can obtain the latest bug fixes by downloading the most recent Service Pack.

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Xceed Ultimate Suite - System Requirements

System Requirements

Platforms:

• .NET
• CF
• WF
• WPF
• Silverlight 2
• ActiveX