Version History for FileUltimate

• Improved: Browsing huge folders is vastly improved (thousands of items will be displayed very quickly) with Browser rendering optimizations.
• Added: IsRefresh property to FileManagerTraversingEventArgs, FileManagerTraversedEventArgs, FileManagerListingEventArgs and FileManagerListedEventArgs to be able to distinguish between a refresh and a new action.
• Added: New better icon (blue version of subfolder icon) for root folder.
• Improved: The look of grid columns so that they look more similar to the columns in Windows Explorer.
• Improved: Rendering icons in TreeView and GridView so that they are aligned more precisely respective to text.
• Improved: Used HTML5 markup for some auto-generated responses (error and expired page).

• Added: UploadQueue property is now available in Uploaded event for accessing all the previously completed uploads in a queue. Starting with v3.0, Uploaded event is raised per file as files are processed one by one by the upload dialog for better performance and statistics. One other advantage is 2GB upload limit will effect files individually so there will be no limit for the total size of the files added in the upload dialog. However the disadvantage was you had to do an action for every single file (eg. send multiple emails) as Uploaded event was raised for each file. For solving this problem, this new property UploadQueue is added. "UploadQueue.IsCompleted" will allow you to do an action (eg. send an email) only when the last item in the queue is processed, ie. when the queue ends. "UploadQueue.UploadInfos" will allow you to loop through all completed UploadInfo objects for collecting information about previous uploads in the queue.
• Improved: Used gradients (instead of single color) for selections in file listing, folder tree and context menus for an improved Windows 7 look.

• Almost rewritten both client-side and serder-side code for maximum performance, stability and flexibility. Client-side code is now organized with namespaces like GleamTech.JavaScript.UI and classes. This organized structure will provide a proper client API and allow new features to be added more easily. Changed server-side namespace to GleamTech.Web.UI.
• FileUltimate is now the general product name of the "ASP.NET File Handling Controls" library. The main control is renamed from FileUltimateControl to FileManager. Other standalone controls (eg. FileUploader) may be added to FileUltimate in future versions.
• Completely new UI with Windows 7 look and feel. All UI images are updated. All file type icons are updated and lots of new ones are added.
• Almost rewritten and modularized upload feature. UI of upload dialog is vastly improved. Even with browser upload method, detailed progress information will be shown. It’s possible to change upload method via context menu.
• Improved: Dropped support for IE 6. Minimum required version for Internet Explorer is now 7. Optimized for new generation of browsers like IE 9, Firefox 5, Chrome 12 and Safari 5.
• Improved: "Download As Zip" action now directly streams the zip file that is being generated to the client. So the user will not have to wait for the whole compressing to complete before downloading. The user will see browser's "Open / Save As" dialog immediately and receive the file on the fly as it is being generated.
• Added: Multiple instances of the control on the same page is now possible.
• Added: ShowOnLoad property to control visibility of the control on load.
• Added: ModalDialog and ModalDialogTitle properties for displaying the control within a modal dialog.
• Added: ClientLoaded property to specify the client-side event which is raised on load.
• Added: SortRootFolders property to control sorting order of root folders.
• Changed: Dropped Style property and added Width and Height properties to specify the dimensions of the control.
• Changed: Dropped FullScreen and added FullViewport property for fitting the browser's viewport.

• Product name is changed from FileVistaControl to FileUltimate so that the control product is not confused with the end-user product (FileVista).
• Single DLL deployment. FileUltimate is from now on, a WebControl and not a UserControl (ascx control). All resources and code are embedded into the single file GleamTech.FileUltimate.dll for easy and robust deployment.
• FileUltimate now targets .Net framework 4.0. This means your host project should run under ASP.NET 4.0. We will not support older framework versions from this version on.
• Developed a custom embedded resource manager which can combine resources like scripts.
• Vastly optimized loading speed of the control by making use of combined scripts and reducing the number of requests.
• Optimized zip features.
• Changed some namespaces and type names.
• Optimized download feature.
• Added: ShowFoldersPane property to control visibility of the Folders pane.
• Added: Embedded languages files and the css file can be overridden with custom files, see readme file for more information.
• Fixed: When a subfolder is copied or moved to a root folder, every folder was displayed twice in the Folders pane incorrectly due to a refresh problem.
• Fixed: "The destination folder is a subfolder of the source folder" was being raised incorectly when copying/moving a folder eg. named "Test" into a folder named eg. "Test Folder".
• Improved: Reorganized event arguments for Uploading and Uploaded events and restructured UploadedFile class. UploadedFile.FileHash property will provide the calculated hash code of the uploaded file in all three upload modes (Flash, Ajax and Browser) correctly .

• Added: FileVistaControl will be able to run under ASP.NET "Medium" trust level from now on. Many shared-hosting companies (eg. GoDaddy) force Medium trust level on their servers for security reasons and FileVistaControl will be compatible with them now.
• Added: A third upload method and optimized existing upload methods. Renamed the old upload method "Browser" to "Ajax" and the new upload method to "Browser". New "Browser" method will allow uploading even in medium-trust level by sacrificing the realtime progress information. "Ajax" method (formerly "Browser") still needs higher permissions due to displaying the realtime progress information so it will not be available in medium-trust level. Note that the best possible upload method "Flash" will now work in medium-trust level.
• Added: New property "ShowSystemTypeDescriptions" for forcing to show file and folder type descriptions from the system's registry. If not enabled (default behaviour), then simple (but current language dependant) type descriptions (eg. EXE File) will be shown. Under Medium-Trust, registry access will not be possible so even if this property is enabled, simple type descriptions will be shown.
• Fixed: Modal dialog background rendering error occured for certain layouts in IE7 only (like in Example 3)
• Fixed: Refresh problem which occured only when you paste after entering into the subfolder.
• Fixed: Allowed file types checking was failing due to checking the full path instead of the file name.
• Fixed: Firefox 3.6 context menu event handling problem.
• Improved: Control and context menus rendering, calculating dimensions, automatic resizing with percentage values.
• Changed: Added and changed some language strings in the language files with key numbers 315 till 317.

• Added: Spanish, Catalan, Danish and Portuguese language files.
• Added: Support for cookieless session state.
• Added: Downloading files larger than 2 GB is now possible.
• Added: New property "MaxZipFileSize" for limiting the size of the generated zip files on "Add to Zip" and "Download as Zip" actions. If this property is not set, then there will be no size limit for the zip files just like the previous behaviour.
• Added: Detailed information (action size, remaining size and total quota) will be displayed when an action (Upload, Add to Zip, Extract and Paste) exceeds the quota limit of the folder.
• Added: New property "ShowHiddenFilesAndFolders" for forcing to show hidden files and folders.
• Added: New property "ShowSystemFilesAndFolders" for forcing to show system files and folders.
• Added: New property "ShowFileExtensions" for forcing to show the extension part of the file names. When this property is enabled, the extensions will be shown and editable in the prompt dialog boxes too. For instance, on "Rename" and "Add to Zip" actions, changing the extension part is possible. The actions will fail if the new extension does not match the allowed types of the folder.
• Added: Detailed information (file name, allowed file types) will be displayed when the result of an action (Rename, Add to Zip, Upload) does not match the allowed file types of the folder.
• Added: The control will now also raise before events: Browsing, Creating, Deleting, Renaming, Copying, Moving, Compressing, Extracting, Uploading and Downloading. A before event can be canceled with displaying a message to the user. If a before event is canceled, the corresponding action will be canceled and the after event will not be fired.
• Added: New property "FileListColumns" for accessing the columns of the file list. Currently only the size (number of characters) of the columns can be overridden.
• Added: Context menus for the folder tree. It is now possible to do all actions by right clicking a folder in the tree.
• Improved: Context menu for container folder will be opened when right-clicked on an empty area in the file listing. When right-clicked on the text (name or other properties) of an item row in the file listing, the item will be selected and context menu for the item will be opened. Removed "Tasks" link above the file listing as it's replaced with the context menu.
• Improved: Mouse cursor will be shown as the pointer (hand) only when on a folder in the folder tree and not on the file listing or the toolbar buttons for a more standard UI.
• Improved: Selected item name will be used as the zip file name instead of the generated names like "download-XXXX.zip" when downloading as zip.
• Fixed: Download corruption with some files types like PDF when IIS dynamic compression is enabled.
• Fixed: A confirm dialog box will be displayed when downloading as zip. This will prevent IE from showing the information bar and blocking the download.
• Fixed: Adding files with the same names will not be allowed in the upload dialog.
• Fixed: Add to Zip, Download, Cut and Copy actions will now also depend on Traverse and List permissions of the subfolders. These actions may access the contents of a subfolder so they should be checked against Traverse and List permissions.
• Fixed: Quota limit will be checked before starting the actions (Add to Zip, Extract and Paste). If the total size of the action exceeds the quota limit, the action will be canceled. This will prevent the action from being completed partially. In previous versions, the action was being processed until a file's size exceeded the quota limit. This was causing partially extracted/pasted files.
• Fixed: Quota limit will not be checked when moving items from a subfolder to a parent folder and vice versa unless the subfolder has an overridden quota setting. A parent folder's total size already includes the size of the subfolders so moving items within the parent folder can not effect the remaining quota size.
• Fixed: An extension in allowed file types such as "*.jpg", was matching all extensions starting with "jpg" ("*.jpg1", "*.jpga" etc.) where it should match only "*.jpg"
• Fixed: The control will now render properly when placed within an invisible container (eg. tab panels).
• Fixed: Right-clicking (or CTRL + click) now opens the context menu in Firefox Mac. On Mac, Command + click will now allow multiple selection instead of CTRL + click as on Windows.
• Changed: Added and changed some language strings with key numbers 304 till 316.

• Fixed: Optimized the clickable area of the Add button in browser mode for cross-browser compability.
• Fixed: Marked the new class FileVistaFolder as Serializable for the out of process session state.
• Fixed: Upload dialog missing progress indication in Firefox 2.
• Added: Hidden and system files/folders are filtered by default.
• Added: 5 new upload related strings to the language files.
• Added: French and Arabic language files.
• Improved: Speed of file listing in the folder view and subfolder populating in the folder tree.
• Added: New property "DisableFolderExpandableCheck" which can be set to true if you are experiencing slow load times with huge folders. When building the folder tree, the control calculates if a folder is expandable or not (ie. if it should have a plus sign or not). By setting this property to true, you can disable this calculation and improve loading speed of huge folders.
• Fixed: If a root folder is inaccessible due to insufficient permissions or other problems, it will still be displayed in the folder tree. This will allow to ignore the root folder with problems and continue loading other available root folders in the list.
• Fixed: Copying or moving a folder into its subfolder will not be allowed.
• Added: Extensions of file names are hidden in the file listing.
• Fixed: The default value of a root folder's AllowedFileTypes property is now "*" instead of "*.*". This will allow files without extensions by default when the property is not set to a specific value.
• Added: When List permission is denied on a folder, an empty folder will be displayed instead of an error message so that other permitted actions can be still done in the folder. This way "blind uploads" and "traversing subfolders without showing files" will be possible.
• Added: A root folder's AllowedFileTypes property will now restrict all file actions (List, Delete, Rename, Copy, Move, Extract, Compress and Download) and not only Upload action. This means only allowed file types will be visible and manageable in the file listing.
• Added: Edit permission now controls overwriting of existing files during Extract action and editing of an existing zip file during Add to Zip action.
• Fixed: Folder tree will be refreshed properly on Cut and Paste of folders.

• Added: Advanced security system which allows assigning access control (permissions, quota and allowed file types) for each subfolder of a root folder separately.
• Added: New property "TemporaryFolder which will control the location of the temporary files that are created during actions like "Download As Zip". If omitted, temporary files will be created in the same folder where the action occurs.
• Improved: Flash upload compatibility with Adobe's latest flash player version 10.0.12.36.
• Fixed: Text could not be selected in the prompt dialog on IE.
• Improved: Enter and Esc keys now work same as the OK and Cancel buttons in the prompt dialog.
• Fixed: A warning message will be displayed on Paste, Compress, Extract All actions when the folder reachs its quota limit.

• Fixed: Timeout problems occured with long lasting uploads in Flash upload mode.
• Improved: Detailed errors instead of generic errors will be displayed and upload event will be logged more accurately in Flash upload mode.

• Fixed: Upload problem which occured in Flash upload mode when uploading more than one file at once. The error was occuring when one of the files took long time to finish, causing a timeout and stopping the overall upload with an error message.

• Fixed: "Download" and "Open with Web Browser" actions will also refresh the host page when when session expires.
• Fixed: Files and folders with the "Read-only" attribute can now be deleted.
• Fixed: Event was not raised when single file was uploaded in flash upload mode.
• Changed: Removed the 2GB maximum limit of maxUploadSize property of FileTransfer section in web.config to allow overriding the value.
• Changed: Used absolute path for the control's base url.

• Fixed: The control will refresh the host page instead of displaying a warning message when session expires.
• Added: Dutch and German language files.

• Added: New upload method (Flash upload) which allows selecting multiple files at once in the file selection dialog where old upload method (Browser upload) allowed you to select only one file at a time. The method is controlled by the new property UploadMethod.
• Added: AllowedFileTypes property to FileVistaRootFolder class. This property accepts a semi-colon separated list of file extensions (eg. "*.doc; *.xls") that are allowed to be uploaded to the root folder.
• Added: Italian language file.

• Added: The control will now raise the following events: Browsed, Created, Deleted, Renamed, Copied, Moved, Compressed, Extracted, Uploaded, Downloaded and Failed.
• Added: Fullscreen property for resizing the control to fit the browser window.
• Improved: Safari compatibility.

• Improved: Rewrote and optimized the download module, resuming downloads is now supported.
• Improved: Rewrote and optimized the upload module for high performance and better error handling. IIS7 Integrated Pipeline Mode is now supported.
• Removed: Dropped UploadTempFolder property as it is no longer required, uploaded files will be directly written to the target folder.
• Added: Support for out of process session state.
• Fixed: If modal dialog locks to mouse movement although the button is released during dragging, clicking once again will stop it.
• Changed: Modal dialog background mask will cover the control only instead of the whole page.
• Changed: Used version 0.85.4.369 of ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll

• Fixed: A vulnerability, details will not be disclosed for security reasons.
• Changed: "Download As Zip" action will be controlled by Download permission only instead of Download and Compress permissions together.
• Fixed: The control can be hosted in a page that is opened in an iframe.
• Fixed: The control will not conflict with external CSS files found on the same page.
• Fixed: Prevented CSS warning messages in FireFox(Error Console) by removing some non-standard CSS properties.

• Fixed: The upload module will not conflict with other modules or controls in the host page.

• Fixed: After a file download was started, the control was not responding until the download finished.

• Added: Debug property for running the control in debug mode which will enable detailed error messages for troubleshooting.
• Added: Fallback mechanism for language files, if the language file of a specific culture (eg. de-CH.xml) is not found, the language file of its neutral culture (eg. de.xml) will be loaded.

• First release.