Newbie looking for free, easy to use zip utility

[Guest]

I am trying to make a simple archiving application in Visual Basic.net

I have only just begun learning vb.net but so far everything seems to work
ok but I have now come to the point where I would like to zip the
files/directories to be archived. The ideal would be a function that I could
all with something like

compress(theTarget, theSource)

Can someone help with suggestions on how to do something that, as easy as
possible?

TIA

/ Richard

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Richard,

When you are a real newbie, I would wait a while with this. It is not
standard.

However the one I find nice(because there is a VBNET dll)

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Egghead]

Do you have the VB.net resource kits?
There is a free componentOne's zip ctl
Egghead