Bricolsoft Zip ActiveX Compression Component 2009 R2

Bricolsoft Zip ActiveX Compression Component 2009 R2 is an excellent choice for developers looking to integrate data compression functionality into their programs. It offers lots of features, complete control over operations, superb ease-of-use, top performance, solid PKZIP compatibility.

Bricolsoft Zip is an easy-to-use, powerful, ActiveX data compression library that offers multi part archive support, WinZip AES data encryption, ZIP64 large file support, memory file compression, self-extracting archive creation and more. It features an intuitive interface design with built-in types, enumerations and constants that make implementing compression functionality in any application quick and easy. Thanks to events that trigger throughout compression and decompression activities, your application can stay on top of operations progress and take appropriate corrective actions.

Major Features:

1. 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)
2. ZIP64  
   • Create PKZIP and WinZip compatible archives that are virtually unlimited in size, and exceed the previous 4 GB per archive limit
   • Create archives that contain an unlimited number of files, instead of just 65,536 files max
   • Compress large files that exceed 4 GB
3. Encryption  
   • Encrypt files using powerful WinZip AES encryption featuring 128, 192 or 256 bit strength
   • 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
4. Multi Volume Archives  
   • Create PKZIP and WinZip compatible multi volume zip archives
   • Specify size of multi volume volumes
   • Locate missing archive parts
5. Self Extracting Archives  
   • Create self-extracting archives with PKZIP2.0 and WinZip AES encryption
   • Create large self-extracting files that exceed 4GB
   • Create multi volume self-extracting files
   • Convert self-extracting archives into zip archives
   • Convert zip archives into 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
   • Request administrative privileges under Windows Vista and later
   • Track each file's extraction progress with the new self-extract module progress bar
6. Memory Files  
   • Zip files from memory buffers or memory streams
   • Unzip files to memory buffers or memory streams
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
   • Runs on Windows 98 IE4+ and is compatible with Windows 7
10. 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#.