Rebex FTP for .NET/.NET CF

Rebex FTP is a file-transfer component for .NET languages (such as C# or VB.NET). Easily FTP files directly from your application - either in synchronous or asynchronous mode. All popular FTP and proxy servers are supported.

Major Rebex FTP for .NET features

Easy-to-use with maximum flexibility
Supports .NET 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. Works flawlessly with 64bit version of .NET Framework.
.NET Compact Framework 1.0 and 2.0 (Windows CE, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile) version is also available.
Free one year upgrades and support.
Upload and download to or from RAM.
Many samples, including multithreaded WinForm clients with full C# and VB.NET source code.
Automatic directory listing parser for the majority of popular FTP servers on Unix, Windows and Netware platforms; easily extensible to support exotic or unknown formats.

Feature list

100% managed code.
CLS (Common Language Specification) compliant.
Stable and thoroughly tested code.
Complete C# source code is optionally available.
Supports .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5.
.NET CF 1.0 and 2.0 build is available for FTP on Windows CE and PocketPC devices.
IPv6 support on .NET 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5 and .NET CF 2.0.
Rebex FTP for .NET is designed for ease of use from your code. Check online samples or download samples and evaluation version.
Support for asynchronous operations.
Active and passive transfer modes.
Binary and ASCII transfers.
Transfer compression support (MODE Z).
Reusable block mode transfer support (MODE B).
All common firewalls and proxy servers are supported.
Support for WebRequest and WebResponse pluggable protocols - download a file using any protocol in just few lines of code.
Samples for C# and VisualBasic .NET.
Special class for manipulating file and directory listings. Wildcards, regular expressions and symlinks supported.
Creating and deleting files and folders.
PutUniqueFile support (STOU command).
Events and delegates for effortless integration with hosting applications.
Can be used in both client and server applications.
REST command support - resume file transfers after interruption.
Server specific commands supported (SITE command) - e.g. setting access permissions on Unix FTP servers.
Automatic directory listing parser (LIST command) with all common formats supported.
Support for custom listing parsers to handle exotic LIST response formats.
Raw FTP command and response support.
Stream support - read from and write to remote files on the fly.
Monitor downloads with the progress event feature.
Error handling with .NET exceptions.
Free one-year support.
Free one-year upgrades.
MDTM (last modified time) and SIZE (the file size) commands support.
Compliant with RFC 959, RFC 1579 and many common extensions.

Supported file and directory listing formats

Unix ls (ProFTPd, Wu-FTPd, Microsoft FTP and many others)
DOS (Microsoft FTP and others)
Netware
DJ Bernstein's EPLF
glFTPd ansi-colored list
VMS and MultiNet (both single and multiline)
IBM 4690
support for custom list parsers

Supported proxy servers

Socks4
Socks4a (Socks4 with domain name resolving)
Socks5
HTTP proxy CONNECT method (ftp://user:password@site)
FTP SITE (SITE with logon)
FTP USER/PASS (USER user@firewall@hostname / PASS pass@firewallpass)
FTP OPEN

Tested FTP servers

MS FTP Server
ProFTPd
Wu-FTPd
BlackMoon FTP Server
Gene6 FTP Server
anonftp/publicfile
glFTPd
GlobalScape Security Server
Bullet Proof
Serv-U FTP Server (by Rhino Software)
War Ftp
WS_FTP Server (by Ipswitch)
Ocean FTP Server (1.02 and higher) (by Code Ocean)
Raiden FTPD
large number of public FTP servers

Samples

Complete GUI FTP client (C#, VB.NET)
Simple console client able to get and set Unix permissions, resume aborted transfers and upload directory trees (C#, VB.NET)
File upload/download utility (C#, VB.NET)
Asynchronous file upload/download utility (C#, VB.NET)
Displaying detailed file list (C#, VB.NET)
Resuming aborted tranfers (C#, VB.NET)
File download GUI utility (C#, VB.NET).
Pluggable protocols - using WebRequest (C#, VB.NET)

What next?

See the samples
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Martin Vobr