Ultimate SFTP Component

Ultimate SFTP Component for .NET offers a comprehensive interface for SFTP, providing the developer with everything that he needs to incorporate secure file transfers in an application, as well as remote file management using SFTP. In addition to downloading and uploading by file name, URL, and wild card masks, the SFTP library also supports remote file management functionality such as directory listings and the ability to rename, delete, and move files on the server.

Other features include standard and extended SFTP operations, security support, SFTP support, Firewall and Proxy support, GSSAPI authentication, and throttle support. It includes SFTP servers like GlobalScape Security Server, GlobalScape EFT Server, VanDyke VShell Server, and WeOnlyDo wodSFTP.

Secure .NET SFTP Library for C# and VB.NET
Ultimate SFTP is a 100%-managed .NET class library that adds powerful SSH File Transfer Protocol client capabilities to your applications. It is fast, reliable, and feature-rich. The SFTP component makes it possible to upload, download, create, delete, and manage files and directories with a few lines of code in .NET, Xamarin iOS, Android, UWP, Mac, and .NET CF apps. The client library is written entirely in C#. The package includes many C# SFTP clients that let you get started quickly. If you need a component for FTP SSL, check out the Ultimate FTP library.

It lets you securely send and receive files
.NET SFTP Component’s Key Features
Upload, download, append, delete, rename/move files
Multi-file operations: Upload, download, delete, move…
Parse listings automatically
Transfer files simultaneously using multiple threads
Multi-file operations with file masks and advanced search criterion
Unified API – use the same for both SFTP and FTP protocols
1-way and 2-way files and directories synchronization
Control bandwidth
Filezilla-like transfer queue
Set file permissions
Support for .NET Full Framework, Xamarin iOS, Mac, Android, Mono, .NET CF, and .NET Core, Standard (will be available soon)
Supports all standard-compliant SFTP servers including our SFTP & SSH Server
Compliant with RFC 959, 1123, 1579, 2228, 3659, 4217, 2246, 4346, 5246 and 5746
Optimize default component and socket settings for maximum transfer speed
Optimized for performance and minimized memory footprint
Load and generate private/public keys (PKCS8, PuTTY, and OpenSSH private key formats).
Detect the time difference between the client and the server.
Comprehensive documentation helps you work with SFTP in C# and VB.NET quickly.
SFTP Code Example
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Supported Platforms
List of the supported platforms

Why Choose Ultimate SFTP
Optimized for Transfer Speed and Memory Usage
To ensure it performs well, we:

Optimize its code following best coding practices for performance
Use as few resources as possible to minimize memory usage
Optimize default component and socket settings for maximum transfer speed
As a result, data is transferred at the maximum transfer speed possible. Should you want to limit the transfer speed, take advantage of bandwidth throttling by setting the MaxDownloadSpeed and MaxUploadSpeed properties of the Sftp class.

ultimate sftp is optimized for performance
.NET SFTP Library with Auto-reconnect and Auto-resume Capability
If an operation or transfer is interrupted due to a broken connection, the component automatically determines whether it should reconnect to the server if the auto-reconnect feature is enabled. When the connection is reestablished, the component will resume the interrupted transfer. As a benefit, your application can still transfer files completely even if the connection to the server is intermittently broken without requiring the code to handle the errors.

C# SFTP library has intuitive and fully documented API
Intuitive and Fully Documented API
Connect, authenticate the user to the server, and transfer files with a few lines of code using the intuitive API of ComponentPro’s C# SFTP client API. By using 100% managed code written in C#, this component takes advantage of the numerous built-in features of the .NET Framework to enhance performance. Moreover, the library is CLS compliant, and it does not use any unsafe blocks for minimal permission requirements.

Our classes are fully documented with detailed example code which helps shorten your learning curve. If your development environment is Visual Studio, enjoy the full integration of the online documentation. Just mark or select a keyword and press F1 in your Visual Studio IDE, and the online documentation is represented instantly.

Unified File System across SFTP, FTP and ZIP libraries
To reduce the effort required to rewrite a number of classes for different systems such as FTP, SFTP, ZIP, Local Disk, and Memory, we introduce the Unified File System. This makes the file and directory management on these systems seamless. The Unified File System allows you to use the same code to transfer items directly between two different systems. As a benefit, you may need to write only one class that works with all systems. The complicated work is done by the File System library, eliminating the requirement to learn more about other File Transfer Protocols. For more information, please visit this topic.

Upload files and directories
Upload/download a file
One client using the same APIs can work with many file systems
Supports for SCP client in C# and VB.NET
Support SCP
The library also includes SCP classes that let you perform SCP file copying easily.

Upload remote items using SCP
Transfer a file
Advanced File Management
Provides synchronous or asynchronous data transfer operations as well as the ability to deep search, delete, move, set properties, check existence, synchronize, and compare files and directories to your applications, offering an easy way to manage remote items.

The FileSystem library included in the package allows you to define search criteria so you can send, receive, move, search, delete, and mirror only files and folders that fit the specified criteria.

Some examples:

Upload local files and directories
Control file upload process
Extract items within a ZIP archive to SFTP server on-the-fly
C# sftp client with advanced file management capability
The sftp component can manipulate file list on-the-fly
Manipulate File List On-the-fly
Not only does Ultimate SFTP support standard and advanced SFTP operations above, but it also supports monitoring and manipulating processing file list while executing muti-file operations like deleting, moving, uploading, and downloading items. That feature makes it possible to add more files to transfer while the operation is still in process. It also provides real-time statistics and status of the items in progress. To add or remove a file or directory from the list of processing items, all you need to do is to call the Add or Remove method of the ProgressFileList class.

Support Multi-threading
In addition to supporting basic and advanced tasks, Ultimate SFTP also supports multi-thread download and upload, as well as data compression on-the-fly with built-in Zlib classes to speed up the transfer.

Some examples:

Download multiple items
Upload multiple local items
You can even split a large remote SFTP file into smaller chunks and download them simultaneously with the MultiPartDownload method. Check out this topic for more details: Chunk file download

It supports many authentication methods
Support for Many Authentication Methods
In addition to basic username/password authentication method, the SFTP library also supports public key, keyboard-interactive, and GSSAPI, NTLM or Kerberos (with single sign-on as well) authentication methods.

Some examples:

Authenticate to an SFTP server
Public key authentication
SSH Features Included
Besides having the comprehensive SFTP interface, it also supports other SSH operations such as executing a command on an SSH server, tunneling through it, starting a new SSH terminal session, reusing an SSH connection for another task, generating key pairs for SSH authentication, etc.

Supports ssh session, ssh and sftp client
ultimatesftp client product can be used in powershell & sql-ssis
PowerShell and SQL-SSIS
UltimateSftp can be easily integrated with Powershell with some simple steps. You can also use it for the SQL-SSIS package. Please see this topic for more details.

Security
The library enables you to build applications with many security features including enabling only the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) approved encryptions, verifying server key, and generating private/public key pairs. Easy-to-use API for validating server identity and customizing/fine-tuning SSH parameters. It supports PKCS8, PuTTY, and OpenSSH key formats as well as keys stored on smart cards. It supports the following security algorithms:

Encryption Algorithm: AES, RC4, Triple DES, Blowfish, and Twofish
MAC Algorithms: MD5, SHA1, SHA256
Key Exchange Algorithms: Diffie-Hellman, group exchange with SHA-1 and SHA-256
Example:

Change encryption algorithm
C# sftp client using the library has many security advantages
ASP.NET Medium Trust Support
You will find that almost all other competitors don’t support Medium Trust environment; Ultimate SFTP does. The Medium Trust mode is forced by setting the MediumTrust security setting, making it possible to run your web applications on shared hostings.

Tested against many SFTP Servers
Bitvise WinSSHD
CoreFTP Server
GlobalScape Security Server
GlobalScape EFT Server
VanDyke VShell Server
OpenSSH
WeOnlyDo wodSFTP
Tectica
XFB.Gateway
and many more…
Trusted
Ultimate SFTP is used by 8K+ developers at thousands of organizations around the world. It is also the core library in our FREE LionFTP client for Windows, which is used and trusted by many users.

Task-based and Event-based Asynchronous Patterns
Our products support the latest Microsoft .NET Task-based Asynchronous Pattern introduced in Visual Studio 2012 – .NET 4.5. You can write your asynchronous methods using async and await (C#) or Async and Await (VB.NET) keywords. If you would like to use the Event-based Asynchronous Pattern, this is also supported.

Some examples:

Download remote files asynchronously
sftp with async await keywords support in C# and VB.NET languages
SFTP, FTP, FTP/SSL – FTPS, or SCP?
You may be confused about the names of these protocols, as the acronyms seem so similar to one another. For example, “SFTP” sounds like an abbreviation of “Secure FTP,” when in fact, “SFTP” and “Secure FTP” are two different protocols. For further explanation and more details about these protocols, please see this page: SFTP, SCP, FTP, FTP/SSL – FTPS, and Secure FTP explanation and comparison.