Xceed to Embrace Microsoft's Silverlight in Upcoming Product

    /24-7PressRelease/ - MONTREAL, QC, CANADA, April 23, 2008 - Xceed is poised to launch Xceed Upload for Silverlight , its first offering in support of Microsoft's promising new Silverlight technology.

Slated for release in May or June 2008, Xceed Upload for Silverlight provides programmers with powerful, full-featured HTTP upload capabilities for C# and VB.NET development using Silverlight. Whether client software needs to upload single files, groups of files, or strings to Web servers, Xceed Upload for Silverlight makes implementation fast and easy. In batch mode, file transfer is deferred, letting the application gather data from different sources, such as form controls, performing the actual transfer when it is ready. Uploads are asynchronous for optimum performance, so the client software remains responsive throughout the operation.

The HTTP requests produced by the component use the standard MIME format for uploading data through the "multipart/form-data" content type. Events allow an application to set important fields in the HTTP request and to monitor the upload operation. The GZip or Deflate compression method can be used and the compression level set. Lastly, Base64 binary encoding is available to support Web browsers that do not allow the upload of non-ASCII data.

Xceed Upload for Silverlight is provided with comprehensive documentation that fully integrates into Visual Studio, as well as C#, VB.NET, and JavaScript sample applications. It supports Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 (except IA-64), and runs in Internet Explorer 7 and 6, Firefox 2 and 1.5, and Safari (Mac OS 10.4.8+ only). Some OS/browser combinations are not supported by Silverlight.

Xceed Upload for Silverlight will initially target Silverlight 2 Beta 1. Subsequent versions of Silverlight—Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device implementation of the .NET Framework for building and delivering rich, interactive applications for the Web and mobile devices—will be supported by Xceed Upload for Silverlight soon after their release.

Once Xceed Upload for Silverlight is released, a fully functional free trial version of this 100%-managed component will be available for download on Xceed's website.

About Xceed Software Inc.

Xceed Software Inc. —a leading developer of high-quality components and UI controls for Windows developers since 1994 and one of today's leading component vendors—is devoted to the development and support of its products, and ardently promotes component-oriented programming. Today, over 25,000 developers use Xceed components worldwide, including Microsoft, which uses Xceed Grid for .NET and other Xceed controls for part of the interface of Microsoft Office 2007 (an online demo of Xceed's grid in Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007 can be seen on Xceed's website). For more information and product or evaluation downloads, please visit http://xceed.com/.


Contact: Charles Duncan ( [email protected] )
Xceed Software Inc.
1555 Jean-Paul-Vincent, suite 180
Longueuil (Quebec), Canada, J4N 1L6
(450) 442-2626, ext. 228

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