Security has always been a major concern for computer data. With the recent surge of hackers gaining access to extremely sensitive customer data, it’s more important than ever to make sure that your applications deal securely with data.

Xceed Zip for .NET v3.1 and Xceed FTP for .NET v3.1—thanks to the Xceed FileSystem Core—now offer the strongest industry-standard encryption available on the market: AES encryption, compatible with WinZip 9 and 10. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), based on the Rijndael algorithm, was adopted by the US Government for the protection of its classified information, with key lengths of 192 and 256 bits being considered sufficiently robust to protect TOP SECRET information.

Breaking AES is usually described as being “computationally infeasible”. So once you properly integrate such strong encryption into your applications, your end-users will be able to use your software with absolute confidence, knowing that their important data is, in theory, impervious to being compromised. Such confidence will translate into happy, return customers, and increased sales of your products, among other things!

And how much coding does it take to activate our product's secure encryption? Only three lines of code to use our highly secure core. That’s all. Talk about getting a lot for very little effort!

Xceed Zip for .NET is the premier data compression component for .NET and ASP.NET, designed to fulfill all your data compression needs. Xceed FTP for .NET is a robust and efficient 100%-managed class library that lets you add Secure FTP file transfer capabilities to your .NET and ASP.NET applications.

These powerful components let your code manipulate files and folders anywhere: in Zip and Tar archives, in GZip files, on FTP sites, in self-extracting Zip files, in streams, in memory, etc. The intuitive FileSystem Core makes working with compressed or remote files and folders as easy as working with regular files and folders.

Xceed Zip for .NET is the only managed .NET / ASP.NET library to offer advanced Zip features such as split/spanned files, fully customizable self-extracting Zip files (.EXE), flexible memory operations, the enhanced Deflate64™ compression method, the 64-bit Zip64 zip file format (used by PKZIP 4.5 and up).

Xceed FTP for .NET is designed to work flawlessly with all types of FTP servers. It provides built-in support for Unix, VMS, AS/400 and DOS server types. Thanks to features such as the ability to create custom listing parsers and support for various FTP tweak properties, the library can also work with almost any type of FTP server.

The latest version of Xceed’s industry-leading, multi-talented grid control, Xceed Grid for .NET, features support for fixed columns. This new usability feature lets your end-users choose at runtime the columns they want pinned in place while they scroll the grid horizontally, giving them maximum data visualization flexibility. End-users can simply drag columns to the left of a FixedColumnSplitter glyph or move the glyph itself. Or everything can be controlled programmatically by a developer.

Additionally, the printing and exporting capabilities of the grid’s reporting engine have been improved, and the settings found in the Generate Report form delivered with the grid can now be made persistent. Also, you can now define variables for displaying customized information in reports.

Xceed Grid for .NET lets you do so much more with a single component. No wasting time learning the different object models of other components, which all too often just don’t deliver. No added expense of buying several components. No putting up with different user interfaces from different companies. All your data grid needs are covered, combining the power of hierarchical master/detail views and Outlook-style row grouping with all of the best capabilities of bound and unbound grids, while improving on flexibility, reliability and display speed.

All this is presented through a rich, logical and highly extensible object-oriented programming model. With its built-in report generator and the controls from Xceed Editors for .NET used as its default editors (also usable outside the grid), Xceed Grid for .NET lets developers address multiple areas and build the most solid and feature-packed applications around.

Developers from all over the world trust Xceed Grid for .NET in their grid-based applications, including Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft uses Xceed Grid for .NET to provide strong reporting capabilities and handle data visualization in MS Small Business Accounting 2006 (see demo for more details). Considering that Microsoft’s suite of productivity applications has an estimated user-base of over 400 million worldwide, one question comes to mind: if Microsoft trusts Xceed Grid for .NET this much, shouldn’t you?

Version 2.1 of Xceed Editors for .NET features the addition of image support in its WinComboBox control. Properties representing the position, alignment, padding, size, and style of image give you total control over the appearance of your combo boxes.

Image support in WinComboBox will let you easily mimic the appearance of the address bar found in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The basic, default controls provided with Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 don’t let you do that!

Xceed Editors for .NET is available as part of Xceed UI Studio for .NET. It is also available for free with Xceed Grid for .NET as the grid control’s default editors; the editors can be used both within and independently outside of the grid.

Xceed UI Studio for .NET is the complete set of UI controls tailored specifically for creating rich and flexible Windows Forms interfaces. There are no ASP.NET or ActiveX controls to pay for! This time-saving toolkit provides twenty user- and developer-friendly visual controls, including menus, toolbars, trees, panes, lists and tabs that offer pixel-perfect Office 2003 and XP look with themes, Xceed Input Validator for .NET, Xceed Docking Windows for .NET, and of course Xceed Editors for .NET. Their true WYSIWYG design experience will make using them fast and easy.