ZIP in .NET

[Guest]

Hi..

My coleagues-programmers are coping with a problem. We want to find a way
to export our project (folder structure) into a single file.
We tought ZIP would be suitable for also utilizing a light compression.
Is there any free code or free library for C# that would support this
zipping, but including spanning, in case the date exceedes 2 GBs?
It must support the spanning. Withuout it, it is meaningless.

Thanks,

Kris

 

[Marc Scheuner]

We tought ZIP would be suitable for also utilizing a light compression.

Is there any free code or free library for C# that would support this
zipping, but including spanning, in case the date exceedes 2 GBs?
It must support the spanning. Withuout it, it is meaningless.

The only *FREE* ZIP Library I know of is #Zip at
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Default.aspx

However, their website prominently displays a banner saying that
developers with advanced ZIP needs should go look at XCeed ZIP
http://www.xceedsoft.com/products/ZipNet/ if they had advanced ZIP
needs (like support for streaming). It's $300 - but consider having to
write this yourself - you'd spent a lot more trying to achieve the
same thing yourself !

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!

Marc

 

[Kevin Spencer]

If you're using .Net platform 2.0, look at the System.IO.Compression
namespace. It has 2 classes, DeflateStream and GZipStream, which are useful
for compression and decompression.

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Kevin Spencer
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