BRISBANE, Australia (11 May 2006). Enterprise Distributed Technologies Ltd is very pleased to announce the immediate release of edtFTPnet/PRO 2.0 - a major upgrade to EDT's popular software library for embedding secure FTP functionality in .NET applications.

EDT has implemented a wide range of requested enhancements to ensure edtFTPnet/PRO 2.0 is the most advanced product of its kind in the world.

edtFTPnet/PRO's new capabilities include:

• Introduction of ProFTPConnection, a state-of-the-art .NET component that integrates with Visual Studio.
• Asynchronous Methods with FTP task queuing.
• A full set of Visual Design Tools including tools for managing client and server certificates.
• A Connection Test Tool which allows the user to test an FTP connection.
• Integrated Help system including numerous Howto's.
• Example Viewer application for easy demonstration of features.

About edtFTPnet/PRO. edtFTPnet/PRO is a .NET library which allows developers to add file transfer capabilities to their applications with minimal effort. edtFTPnet/PRO implements standard FTP and FTPS (explicit and implicit modes), which is the industry standard for secure FTP. It also supports SOCKS 4 and SOCKS 5 proxies, as well as directory transfers.

Built on the solid foundation of the stable, mature and widely used edtFTPnet code-base, edtFTPnet/PRO benefits from the robustness that years of open-source development and thousands of installations brings.

About Enterprise Distributed Technologies Ltd. EDT is the source of some of the world's most popular FTP components. Through a strategy of combining open-source software with commercial products, EDT offers robustness, flexibility, and blue-ribbon customer support. EDT's premier product is the EDT Platform, which provides reliable and secure data transfer solutions for thousands of organisations world-wide.

The EDT Platform is a suite of products built around the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Popular members of the suite include edtFTPj, an Open Source library that adds FTP capabilities to Java applications, and edtFTPnet, a .NET version of edtFTPj. edtFTPj/PRO is a secure FTP version of edtFTPj that supports FTPS. Similarly, edtFTPnet/PRO is derived from edtFTPnet.