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Xceed ZIP is software with compression facilities for .NET framework, Microsoft Silverlight and support for ActiveX Technology to give full 64-bit File Compression. It's designed mostly for developers and is able to handle large files of Petabytes and uses advanced mechanisms to reduce Zipping times. It has the following main features:

• ActiveX Technology

Its ActiveX Controls are written with ATL 3.0. It supports Single-threaded and Multiple-threaded apartment designs. It can also have multiple instances of the program running and working simultaneously which is best favored for heavy multi-cored CPUs. The class libraries for .NET framework, compression and File System are available for developers.

• Compression and ZIP File

It uses best low latency algorithms for Zipping using least memory resources. It also supports new standards such as PKZIP 2.04g and PKZIP 4.5 formats. It also supports ZIP64 which gives it no practical limit for the output file sizes. It uses the BZip2 (BWT) compression method for compressing XML files which is 15% to 20% better than traditional techniques. The 64-bit version gives it ability to input or output any number of files. The reader has the ability to automatically detect errors in the ZIP files and tries to repair it without the use of any other software.

• ZIP file manipulations

It allows a great deal of operations on the already Zipped files. For example, converting multiple ZIP files into a new ZIP file, converting files from multiple ZIP formats into one format ZIP file. It can divide large ZIP files into smaller ZIP files of desired sizes. It also has a nice GUI which informs about the current running process. Advanced parameters for Zipping can be given such as selecting file formats within a directory to be zipped. As a safety measure, it works on temporary copies of ZIP files to give maximum protection in case of power outage. It can also allocate dynamic resources to other running applications so that the system doesn’t freeze.

• Complete documentation and samples are available
• Direct DLL API Access
• Impressive Self-extracting ZIP features

System Requirements: Support for all new OS. All the CPUs are supported, but multi-core CPUs are recommended for best performance.

• Current Version 1.1 .NET CF Platform

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