Looking for a managed class to work with .zip and .cab files

[Wayne Goodyear]

Sorry for the crosspost. I'm looking for a managed class library that allows
decompressing .zip and/or .cab files. Preferably free. If it supports the
..NET Compact Framework that will be even better. thanks!

 

[Tomer Gabel]

Hello Wayne,

This is a good starting place: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/
I'm not sure if it supports CF or has everything you need, but I imagine
it can be adapted fairly easily (we've used it successfully in projects before).

Regards,
Tomer Gabel (http://www.tomergabel.com)
Monfort Software Engineering Ltd. (http://www.monfort.co.il)

 

[Paul Kay]

I have used SharpZipLib extensively in Compact Framework projects.

Paul

 

[Wayne Goodyear]

How do you build SharpZipLb in Compact Framework 2.0? I get all sorts of
errors when trying to compile it. Is there a doc somewhere that explains how
to take the desktop solution and port it to compact framework 2.0 and how to
resolve the errors?

 

[Jared]

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/09/12/using-data-compression-in-net-20.html

gzip wont allow you to un/compress multiple files in one package, but I
think this article has everything you need.

 

[Guest]

Unless I misunderstood your question, I don't think you need to look outside
of the .NET Framework BCL. See System.IO.Compression.GZipStream class.
According to the SDK it is supported in Compact Framework 2.0.

 

[Guest]

After reading more, and seeing some examples -

http://blogs.msdn.com/dotnetinterop/archive/2006/04/05/567402.aspx

GZipStream may not work with "PKzip" format, as .zip format is proprietary.
GZipStream seems to conform to a different, but "open" spec.

 

[esxmarkc]

I can't get these references to resolve in Compact Framework 2.0. even
though it says they are supported.

GZipStream would work fine for my appilcation but if I try to add
Using System.IO.Compression;

It fails. Any Ideas?
Mark C.

 

[Guest]

It's unsupported in the CF.

-Chris

I can't get these references to resolve in Compact Framework 2.0. even
though it says they are supported.

GZipStream would work fine for my appilcation but if I try to add
Using System.IO.Compression;

It fails. Any Ideas?
Mark C.