Bricolsoft Zip ActiveX Component 2009

Bricolsoft Zip ActiveX Component 2009 offers you an excellent product which is an easy-to-use, high performance, PKZIP-compatible, ActiveX data compression component that lets developers quickly enable advanced data compression capabilities in their applications.

EASY-TO-USE - Bricolsoft Zip features an intuitive interface design with built-in constants, enumerations and types as well as a multitude of events that keeps your applications informed of operations progress. Just a few lines of code allow you to integrate complex functionality such as data encryption, memory compression, self extracting archive creation and more. The included context help, quick start guide and samples in multiple programming languages make getting started simple and painless.

EASY-TO-DEPLOY - The entire library is self contained, and consists of only one DLL file. You don't have to worry about complex dependencies or figure out how to link the code into your programs.

HIGH PERFORMANCE - To deliver the highest possible performance, the library is built using ATL 3.0 and highly optimized C and C code. This makes it appropriate for jobs that require the greatest possible efficiency and speed.

PKZIP COMPATIBLE - The component adheres to the PKZIP 2.04g format. Files that you create using the component are compatible with zip utilities such as WinZip, PKZIP and Info-Zip.

POWER -The component supports advanced functionality such as memory compression, data encryption and self extracting archive creation, all with just a few lines of code.

CONTROL - A variety of events that trigger throughout compression and decompression activities ensure that your application stays informed of operations progress and can take corrective actions.

REUSABLE SAMPLES -The component comes packaged with a variety of samples that address common coding scenarios and whose code you can freely reuse in your applications to speed up development. 

Major Features:

1. Architecture: 
   
   • ActiveX component built using the lightweight ATL framework for outstanding compression performance
   • Single, self-contained DLL with no external library dependencies for the simplest possible deployment
   • Built-in constants, enumerations and data types that interact with your programming environment’s auto complete feature to accelerate programming
   • Compatible with a wide range of programming environments such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, Active Server Pages (ASP), Delphi, C++ Builder, Visual FoxPro, MS Office VBA, scripting languages and any other 32-bit languages that implement ActiveX support.
   • Compatible with .NET languages such as C# and VB.NET
2. Supported Operations:
   
   • List contents of a zip file
   • Zip files to an archive
   • Unzip files from an archive
   • Move disk files to an archive
   • Remove files from an archive
   • Test archive contents
   • Repair archive
   • Convert a zip archive to a self extracting archive
   • Convert a self extracting archive to a zip archive
   • Read archive comment
   • Write archive comment
   • Compress only newer files (refresh)
   • Compress only existing files (update)
3. Memory Files:
   
   • Zip files from memory buffers
   • Unzip files to memory buffers
   • Zip files from memory streams
   • Unzip files to memory streams
4. Self Extracting Archives:
   
   • Specify default extraction folder for self extracting archives
   • Specify file overwrite behavior during extraction
   • Specify program to run after extraction
   • Specify readme text file to display after extraction
   • Specify password for each encrypted file during extraction
   • Customize self extractor module messages such as the startup message and the About box message
5. Encryption:
   
   • Encrypt files using PKZIP 2.0 compatible encryption
   • Apply encryption to all files in an archive or only to specific files, using the same password or different passwords
6. Filters:
   
   • Filter based on minimum and maximum file size during both compression and decompression
   • Use minimum and maximum date cutoffs
   • Exclude and include files based on required and excluded attributes
   • Filter files based on existence (exists or does not exist in archive)
   • Update only files that are newer.
7. Miscellaneous Features:
   
   • Store and restore NTFS security descriptors
   • Store and restore last modification, last accessed and created dates using the Info-Zip extended timestamps format
   • Store and restore last modification, last accessed and created dates using the PKZIP filetimes format
8. Documentation and Samples:
   
   • Comprehensive HTML Help documentation with context sensitive help topics so you can view help on methods, properties, enumerations and more by simply pressing F1 in your programming environment to bring up the relevant topic
   • Clear and fully commented samples in a variety of popular languages such as VB6, Delphi, C++ Builder, VB.NET and C#.