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Fast, flexible zip & data compression library for .NET Compact Framework.
Current version: 4.3
Platform: .NET CF
Price: $899.95 USD (includes 1-year Vanguard subscription). Royalty-free.

Zip for .NET CF Updates : sfx, self extractor, self extracting, self extract, info-zip, zlib, dotnet, .net 2.0, .net 3.0, mobile, compress, uncompress, file system, aes, encryption

Version 4.3
  • Xceed Zip for .NET CF v4.3 now creates zip files even more efficiently by allowing developers to decided whether folder entries should be written to an archive, which reduces its size. The product can also create archives using the Deflate format without compression, for full compatibily with Xceed Real-Time Zip (.NET / .NET CF / Silverlight) and generally improved flexibility.

    Update 4.3.11214.17010 released April 19, 2011. (Adds PPMd support.)

    Update 4.3.11426.13250 released August 29, 2011.

    Update 4.3.11480.14500 released October 5, 2011.

    Update 4.3.11524.16210 released October 31, 2011. (Contains documentation updates.)
Version 4.2
  • The Zip capabilities in version 4.2 of Xceed Zip for .NET CF boast their most exciting and significant performance increase yet. Creating and updating zip files can be significantly faster, thanks to a greatly reduced use of temporary files.
  • Added a TarEvents class (currently undocumented). The class should be used like the ZipEvents class. For now, TarEvents only contains the ReadingTarItemProgression event. It will be triggered during the initial reading of the Tar archive. The Tar format does not allow the component to know the total number of items without a large time penalty. So true progression with a percentage is not possible. The event will report the value 0 in the 'Total' property until the last time the event is triggered. Then, the value in 'Total' will be the total number of items read. This will also serve to indicate that the operation has completed.

    Update 4.2.10308.15040 released June 11, 2010.

    Update 4.2.10371.14390 released July 26, 2010.

    Update 4.2.10458.10150 released September 9, 2010.
Version 4.1
  • Version 4.1 incorporates 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. These enhancements will ensure that developers can respond quickly to changes in the industry and keep a step ahead of their competition.

    Update 4.1.9460.14460 released September 11, 2009.

    Update 4.1.9616.13400 released December 21, 2009.

    Update 4.1.10159.13000 released March 11, 2010.
Version 4.0
  • Version number synchronization with Xceed Zip for .NET.

    As of v3.3, Xceed Zip for .NET CF works only with .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and up. Users developing with .NET 1.1 can obtain the latest bug fixes by downloading the most recent Service Pack.

    Update 4.0.9175.12420 released April 1, 2009.

    Update 4.0.9356.09250 released July 13, 2009.
Version 3.7
  • Service release. Full compatibility with Visual Studio 2008. All samples have been converted to VS2008 (names of Visual Studio 2005 versions now contain "_VS2005").

    As of v3.3, Xceed Zip for .NET CF works only with .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and up. Users developing with .NET 1.1 can obtain the latest bug fixes by downloading the most recent Service Pack.

    Update 3.7.8312.09580 released June 12, 2008.

    Update 3.7.8373.08220 released July 28, 2008.

    Update 3.7.8577.11540 released December 1, 2008.
Version 3.6
  • Version synchronization with Xceed Zip for .NET. Bugfixes.
  • New version of Xceed's self-extracting binaries. See the self-extracting section in the Features for details.

    As of v3.3, Xceed Zip for .NET CF works only with .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and up. Users developing with .NET 1.1 can obtain the latest bug fixes by downloading the most recent Service Pack.
Version 3.5
  • Version synchronization with Xceed Zip for .NET.

    As of v3.3, Xceed Zip for .NET CF works only with .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and up. Users developing with .NET 1.1 can obtain the latest bug fixes by downloading the most recent Service Pack.
Version 3.4
  • Added BZip2 compression method for improved compatibility with the latest WinZip and greater compression, and BWT compression method for superior compression.

    As of v3.3, Xceed Zip for .NET CF works only with .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and up. Users developing with .NET 1.1 can obtain the latest bug fixes by downloading the most recent Service Pack.
Version 3.3
  • Bug-fix service release with version number synchronized with Xceed Zip for .NET.

    As of v3.3, Xceed Zip for .NET CF works only with .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and up. Users developing with .NET 1.1 can obtain the latest bug fixes by downloading the most recent Service Pack.
Version 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2
  • Bug-fix service releases with version numbers synchronized with Xceed Zip for .NET.

    Xceed Zip for .NET CF 3.2 is the last version compiled to run on both .NET Compact Framework 1.1 and 2.0. While no new features will be made available for developers working with .NET CF 1.1, bug fixes for versions designed to work with .NET CF 1.1 will continue to be made available through Service Packs.
Version 2.3
  • Adds the ability to read and write in the Zip64 zip file format, an update to the Zip format supported by WinZip and PKZip. Gone is the 4 GB limit for files and archives, and archives can hold an almost unlimited number of files
Version 2.2
  • Supports extra headers, meaning that supplementary information (in both PKWARE and Info-Zip formats) can be included in zipped files. End-users can therefore use detailed time-stamp information (last modified, last accessed, and creation date/time) and Unicode filenames (international characters).
Version 2.1
  • Features speed improvements when dealing with a large number of files: 40% to 80% faster when compressing and 20% to 30% faster when decompressing.